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Tue queen had promised Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee, that, having beheaded John the Baptist, he would have peace of mind at last. He would be free, once and for all, of those gnawing doubts with which the Baptist had pricked his feeble conscience. The people, too, she predicted, would soon quiet down. But Queen Herodias was neither sibyl nor prophetess; she was wrong about both matters. The Baptist was dead, but the king could not forget him. And this Jesus, for whom John had been the great advertiser, was now making the perturbing gospel more popular than ever among the people in his domain.
Not a day passed but the king's spies brought him reports of the growing force of Jesus.