But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.

For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: / And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.