Re:Verse passage – Mark 6:14-29 (day three)
“But when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, ’John, whom I beheaded, has risen!’”
Herod had a bad feeling about executing John. Not bad enough to keep him from killing him, though. And now his life became a nightmare. This wasn’t superstition, as if his first-century mind didn’t know that people who are dead tend to remain that way. No, this was much more serious. It was reality. Not that John had risen from the dead, but that Herod’s sins were finding him out. Herod was running out of room to maneuver. The man with so much power grew weak-kneed at the enormity of his transgression. Herod could save face in front of his dinner guests. He couldn’t save his soul in the face of God’s judgment. He couldn’t bring himself to humble his body and soul before God.
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