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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 14, 1868

Herod and John.

MATT. xiv, 1. At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, 2, and said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him.

Herod had previously caused John the Baptist to be beheaded, and now he declared that he had risen from the dead. But Herod was a Sadducee; and the Sadducees denied the resurrection of the dead. This is, therefore, a notable instance in which the stings of conscience, or the goadings of fear, prove stronger than a man's outward profession. Death-beds of infidels often bear witness to the same fact.