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John Gill
And immediately the king sent an executioner,.... [See comments on Matthew 14:10] and commanded his head to be brought; ordered him to cut off his head in prison, and bring it away forthwith in a charger to him: and he went and beheaded him in the prison; according to his orders.
Matthew Henry
A great variety of observable passages we have, in this chapter, concerning our Lord Jesus, the substance of all which we had before in Matthew, but divers circumstances we have, which we did not there meet with. Here is, I. Christ contemned by his countrymen, because he was one of them, and they knew, or thought they knew, his original, ver. 1-6. II. The just power he gave his apostles over...