JUST FEEL THE LOVE!

Israel has failed to receive their Messiah as King, so let’s see who is on the throne...

Herod Antipas isn’t content with a quarter of his father’s kingdom – he’s now won his half-brother’s wife too. He’s not going to let some pesky preacher-man get in the way so locks up John the Baptist.  After all...“Love is love!”...aint it??   (Matt 14)                                                                                                               

Salome wows Herod

From all accounts it’s not so simple for Herod though – he dare not execute a prophet but how long can he keep John locked up for?                         

(He listens gladly to John while having to closely guard him from Herodias)                                                       

   

Remember Jesus said: “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence...”                                    

Finally she gets what she wants – John’s head on a platter. 

What a tragic king!...from incestuous, adulterous and ruthless royalty.   

He knows John was a just and holy man so now he’s worried God has raised a beheaded man from the dead!                                                              

How does the rightful King respond to hearing his cousin lost his head?   

Jesus just goes bush and compassionately heals more sick people.               

Is He about to show even more compassion to people under brutal Herod?...NEXT