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Machaerus, fortress of

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Every paragraph the index cites under Machaerus, fortress of, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

Paper 135 · John the Baptist

12. Death of John the Baptist

135:12.1As John was work­ing in south­ern Perea when ar­rested, he was taken im­me­di­ately to the prison of the fortress of Machaerus, where he was in­car­cer­ated un­til his ex­e­cu­tion. Herod ruled over Perea as well as Gal­i­lee, and he main­tained res­i­dence at this time at both Ju­lias and Machaerus in Perea. In Gal­i­lee the of­fi­cial res­i­dence had been moved from Sep­pho­ris to the new cap­i­tal at Tiberias.

135:12.2–3 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

135:12.2Herod feared to re­lease John lest he in­sti­gate re­bel­lion. He feared to put him to death lest the mul­ti­tude riot in the cap­i­tal, for thou­sands of Pere­ans be­lieved that John was a holy man, a prophet. There­fore Herod kept the Nazarite preacher in prison, not know­ing what else to do with him. Sev­eral times John had been be­fore Herod, but never would he agree ei­ther to leave the do­mains of Herod or to re­frain from all pub­lic ac­tiv­i­ties if he were re­leased. And this new ag­i­ta­tion con­cern­ing Je­sus of Naz­a­reth, which was steadily in­creas­ing, ad­mon­ished Herod that it was no time to turn John loose. Be­sides, John was also a vic­tim of the in­tense and bit­ter ha­tred of Hero­dias, Herod’s un­law­ful wife.

135:12.3On nu­mer­ous oc­ca­sions Herod talked with John about the king­dom of heaven, and while some­times se­ri­ously im­pressed with his mes­sage, he was afraid to re­lease him from prison.

135:12.4Since much build­ing was still go­ing on at Tiberias, Herod spent con­sid­er­able time at his Perean res­i­dences, and he was par­tial to the fortress of Machaerus. It was a mat­ter of sev­eral years be­fore all the pub­lic build­ings and the of­fi­cial res­i­dence at Tiberias were fully com­pleted.

Paper 144 · At Gilboa and in the Decapolis

8. In Camp Near Pella

144:8.6Af­ter the mes­sen­gers had con­versed with Ab­ner, they de­parted for Machaerus to tell all this to John. He was greatly com­forted, and his faith was strength­ened by the words of Je­sus and the mes­sage of Ab­ner.

Paper 144 · At Gilboa and in the Decapolis

9. Death of John the Baptist

144:9.1John the Bap­tist was ex­e­cuted by or­der of Herod An­tipas on the evening of Jan­uary 10, A.D. 28. The next day a few of John’s dis­ci­ples who had gone to Machaerus heard of his ex­e­cu­tion and, go­ing to Herod, made re­quest for his body, which they put in a tomb, later giv­ing it burial at Se­baste, the home of Ab­ner. The fol­low­ing day, Jan­uary 12, they started north to the camp of John’s and Je­sus’ apos­tles near Pella, and they told Je­sus about the death of John. When Je­sus heard their re­port, he dis­missed the mul­ti­tude and, call­ing the twenty-four to­gether, said: “John is dead. Herod has be­headed him. Tonight go into joint coun­cil and ar­range your af­fairs ac­cord­ingly. There shall be de­lay no longer. The hour has come to pro­claim the king­dom openly and with power. To­mor­row we go into Gal­i­lee.”

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Cited alongside: Tiberias, Herod Antipas