To Consider As You Explore

• How does the size of Herod Antipas' kingdom compare with that of his father, Herod the Great?

• What did Herod Antipas do to earn harsh criticism from John the Baptist?

• What political reasons might Herod Antipas have for arresting John?

• In what sense is Jesus a marked man politically, from almost the beginning of his ministry?

For Your Spiritual Growth

• When you first started becoming acquainted with who Jesus is, what was the political context? What was going on in your life and in your part of the world at that time? How have your perceptions about Jesus changed since then? In what way have shifting political circumstances altered your views of Jesus?

John's base of operations, the wilderness area around the Jordan River, was rugged terrain.

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