Antipas
    (1.) Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great by his Samaritan
    wife Malthace. He was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea during the
    whole period of our Lord's life on earth (Luke 23:7). He was a
    frivolous and vain prince, and was chargeable with many infamous
    crimes (Mark 8:15; Luke 3:19; 13:31, 32). He beheaded John the
    Baptist (Matt. 14:1-12) at the instigation of Herodias, the wife
    of his half-brother Herod-Philip, whom he had married. Pilate
    sent Christ to him when he was at Jerusalem at the Passover
    (Luke 23:7). He asked some idle questions of him, and after
    causing him to be mocked, sent him back again to Pilate. The
    wife of Chuza, his house-steward, was one of our Lord's
    disciples (Luke 8:3).

      (2.) A "faithful martyr" (Rev. 2:13), of whom nothing more is
    certainly known.



 Antipas, for all, or against all