(1.) Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great by his Samaritan wife Malthace. According to the Bible, he was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea during the entire lifetime of Jesus. (Luke 23:7).
The Biblical account describes Herod Antipas as follows. He is characterized as a frivolous and vain prince, and charged with many infamous crimes (Mark 8:15; Luke 3:19; 13:31, 32). He is held to have 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. According to the Bible, Pilate sent Jesus to him when he was at Jerusalem at the Passover (Luke 23:7). Herod Antipas asked some idle questions of him, and after causing him to be mocked, sent him back again to Pilate.
The wife of Chuza, Herod Antipas's house-steward, was one of Jesus's disciples (Luke 8:3).
(2.) A "faithful martyr" (Rev. 2:13), of whom nothing more is certainly known.
Antipas is styled "my faithful witness." Hence the name is identical with him, or them, who held fast the name and denied not the faith of Christ, whether in Pergamos or elsewhere, in the midst of persecution.
Antipas however, though put to death, hath been resuscitated and they now "stand upon their feet," and their enemies are afraid of them.
The author of this exposition is an Antipas; and would rather stand alone, faithfully adherent to the name and faith of the Spirit, than redolent of the odors of sanctity burned to his honor by all the clergy and pietists of "Christendom".
Herod Antipas (born 20 BC) was an ancient leader (Tetrarch) of Galilee and Peraea.
A son of Herod the Great and Malthace, who was from Samaria, Herod Antipas became Tetrarch in 4 BC upon the death of his father.
Herod Antipas was exiled by the Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Caligula to Lugdunum (modern Lyons), in Gaul in AD 39 according to Josephus (Antiquities) who says, however, in the Jewish Wars (II, ix, 6) "So Herod died in Spain whither his wife had followed him".
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