Hey amigos, we're in today, two of a three day processing

of the life of Herod Antipas and a historical context

deep dive into the political reality and political drama

that surrounded the events of the Gospel of Matthew.

If you haven't caught yesterday's episode,

today's episode is gonna make a lot more sense.

If you go back and grab it with that in mind,

let's get cooking.

The way it looks like it plays out is that back in Rome

in this overwrought, flowery, dramatic, imperial court

lifestyle where everyone's always maneuvering against

everyone else to try to get ahead,

Antipas made some questionable friendships.

Now while Tiberius was in office,

stuff got kind of weird in this court

because Tiberius went and made his own court

on the Isle of Capri off the coast of Naples south of Rome.

Tiberius liked governing at first,

but eventually it looks like he got kind of bored

and wanted to do licentiousness.

And so he made this booze and drugs and liquor

and women pleasure palace that the ruins of which still exists

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