What archaeological evidence supports John's story?
And the reason is that John has been criticizing John her marriage to Herod Antipas. And you just need a little bit of the background here, because Herodias used to be married to Herods half-brother, who's either called Herod or Philip, depending on the source.
They're like the same names, don't they?
Yeah, they're all called Herod. I mean, Herod is sort of a family name anyway. So Herod Antipas meets this woman, Herodias, who's married at the time to his half-brother, and they fall in love and they decide they're going to get married. Now the problem is that dass ihre Verheiratung gegen die jüdischen Regeln ist, weil es illegal war, deine Brüderin zu verheiraten, wenn dein Bruder noch lebt.
Wenn dein Bruder tot ist, dann solltest du eigentlich seine Frau verheiraten und Kinder erbringen. Aber sie entscheiden, dass sie verheiratet werden. Sie werden beide verheiratet und verheiratet. Und es scheint von Matthew und Mark, dass John dies kritisiert hat.
Now, Josephus says nothing at all about John criticizing the marriage, but it does seem to me that the two things actually fit in quite well. I mean, if John is all about living a moral life, be righteous, repent of your crimes, your sins, then I think it's quite likely that he criticized Herod Antipas.
This is very high profile, you know, this is the ruler and he's probably going to have criticized him. That may not be, you know, the whole story about the dancing girl and then Herod says to her, oh, you know, he's completely kind of This ridiculous middle-aged man. And he says, you know, you can have whatever you like, half of my kingdom. And the girl goes, I mean, she's a little girl.
She's not the sort of the dancing girl we sometimes imagine. But this little girl goes to her mom and says, what shall I ask for? And she says, the head of John the Baptist. And the little girl adds the detail on a platter. And so that's what happens. And poor old Herod has to kill John the Baptist. He can't go back on his promise. And then the disciples of John come and take the body away.
All pretty grim. Very grim.
A popular topic for Renaissance artists and so on, I can guess.
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