And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
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Interpretation
The terror and reproach of conscience, which Herod, like other daring offenders, could not shake off, are proofs and warnings of a future judgment, and of future misery to them. But there may be the terror of convictions, where there is not the truth of conversion.
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This thought runs through Matthew 14:3-6.