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<p id="Chapter14" align="center">Commentary by DAVID BROWN<br>CHAPTER 14
<p id="Mt14_1"><a onclick="return mV('Mat',14,'1-12');">Mat 14:1-12</a>. HEROD THINKS JESUS A RESURRECTION OF THE MURDERED BAPTIST&#8212;ACCOUNT OF HIS IMPRISONMENT AND DEATH. (= <a onclick="return mV('Mar',6,'14-29');">Mar 6:14-29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',9,'7-9');">Luk 9:7-9</a>).
<p>The time of this alarm of Herod Antipas appears to have been during the mission of the Twelve, and shortly after the Baptist&#8212;who had been in prison for probably more than a year&#8212;had been cruelly put to death.
<p><i>Herod's Theory of the Works of Christ</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',14,1,2);">Mat 14:1-2</a>).
<p><b>1. At that time Herod the tetrarch</b>&#8212;Herod Antipas, one of the three sons of Herod the Great, and own brother of Archelaus (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',2,22);">Mat 2:22</a>), who ruled as <i>ethnarch</i> over Galilee and Perea.
<br><br><b>heard of the fame of Jesus</b>&#8212;"for His name was spread abroad" (<a onclick="return mV('Mar',6,14);">Mar 6:14</a>).
<p id="Mt14_2"><b>2. And said unto his servants</b>&#8212;his counsellors or court-ministers.
<br><br><b>This is John the Baptist: he is risen from the dead,</b> etc.&#8212;The murdered prophet haunted his guilty breast like a specter and seemed to him alive again and clothed with unearthly powers in the person of Jesus.
<p id="Mt14_3"></i>Account of the Baptist's Imprisonment and Death</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',14,'3-12');">Mat 14:3-12</a>). For the exposition of this portion, see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mar/Mar006.html#Mr6_17">Mar 6:17-29</a>.
<p id="Mt14_11"><a name= "Mt14_12"></a> <p><a onclick="return mV('Mat',14,'12-21');">Mat 14:12-21</a>. HEARING OF THE BAPTIST DEATH JESUS CROSSES THE LAKE WITH TWELVE AND MIRACULOUSLY FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND. (= <a onclick="return mV('Mar',6,'30-44');">Mar 6:30-44</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',9,'10-17');">Luk 9:10-17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',6,'1-14');">Jhn 6:1-14</a>).
<p>For the exposition of this section&#8212;one of the very few where all the four Evangelists run parallel&#8212;see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mar/Mar006.html#Mr6_30">Mar 6:30-44</a>.
<p id="Mt14_22"><a onclick="return mV('Mat',14,'22-26');">Mat 14:22-26</a>. JESUS CROSSES TO THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE LAKE WALKING ON THE SEA&#8212;INCIDENTS ON LANDING. (= <a onclick="return mV('Mar',6,45);">Mar 6:45</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',6,'15-24');">Jhn 6:15-24</a>).
<p>For the exposition, see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jhn/Jhn006.html#Joh6_15">Joh 6:15-24</a>.
<p id="Mt14_28"><b>28. And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it is thou, bid me come to thee on the water</b>&#8212;(Also see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mar/Mar006.html#Mr6_50">Mar 6:50</a>.)
<p id="Mt14_29"><b>29. And he said, Come. And when Peter had come down out of the boat. he walked on the water, to go to Jesus</b>&#8212;(Also see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mar/Mar006.html#Mr6_50">Mr 6:50</a>.)
<p id="Mt14_30"><b>30. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me</b>&#8212;(Also see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mar/Mar006.html#Mr6_50">Mar 6:50</a>.)
<p id="Mt14_31"><b>31. And immediately Jesus stretched forth <i>his</i> hand, and caught him, and said to him, O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?</b>&#8212;(Also see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mar/Mar006.html#Mr6_50">Mar 6:50</a>.)
<p id="Mt14_32"><b>32. And when they had come into the boat, the wind ceased</b>&#8212;(Also see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mar/Mar006.html#Mr6_50">Mar 6:50</a>.)
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