Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

John the Baptist has been in prison since approximately the start of Jesus

ministry. Herod Antipas arrested him after he rebuked Herod for marrying

his brother's wife who is named Herod

because she's actually the granddaughter of King Herod the Great which means

both of her husbands are also her uncles. Okay. She wants J.T. dead, but Herod is torn.

When Herod's birthday party rolls around, the daughter of Herod's

does a little dance for him as a part of the event.

In ancient Greco-Roman culture, the dance is done at these parties tend to be more on the seductive

side if you catch my drift.

So it's super inappropriate that Herod's stepdaughter slash great niece is the entertainment. Herod loves it, of course, and makes the grand gesture of offering her anything she wants.

It seems likely that Herodias was using her own daughter as a pawn in order to achieve this very outcome.

Herodias tells her daughter,

hey, I know you had your heart set on a pony, but hear me out.

How's about you ask for the head of a prisoner instead?

Can you imagine? So because of the sins of the king and the

selfish plotting of his wife, John the Baptist is beheaded in prison. He dies an

unjust death. The very one Jesus hinted at not long ago when JTB sent

him a message asking him if he really was the Messiah. After Herod kills JTB, he starts

getting word of all the miraculous things Jesus is doing and he's super confused because he sees a lot of similarities in these two guys.

He's left wondering if Jesus is the ghost or the resurrection of JTB because of how their ministries run along the same

trajectory. Some people even suggest that Jesus is the resurrected Elijah because of the types

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