147:0.2 Many of the household of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas Herod] believed in [[Jesus]] and attended these meetings. It was the [[influence]] of these [[believers]] among [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipoas Herod]'s official [[family]] that had helped to lessen that ruler's [[enmity]] toward [[Jesus]]. These believers at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberias Tiberias] had fully [[explained]] to Herod that the " [[the Kingdom|kingdom]] " which [[Jesus]] [[proclaimed]] was [[spiritual]] in [[nature]] and not a [[political]] venture. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas Herod] rather believed these members of his own household and therefore did not [[permit]] himself to become unduly alarmed by the spreading abroad of the reports concerning [[Jesus]]' teaching and [[healing]]. He had no objections to [[Jesus]]' [[work]] as a [[healer]] or religious [[teacher]]. Notwithstanding the favorable [[attitude]] of many of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas Herod]'s advisers, and even of Herod himself, there existed a [[group]] of his subordinates who were so [[influenced]] by the [[Sanhedrin|religious leaders]] at [[Jerusalem]] that they remained bitter and threatening enemies of [[Jesus]] and [[the apostles]] and, later on, did much to hamper their [[public]] [[activities]]. The greatest [[danger]] to [[Jesus]] lay in the [[Jerusalem]] religious [[leaders]] and not in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas Herod]. And it was for this very reason that [[Jesus]] and [[the apostles]] spent so much time and did most of their [[public]] [[preaching]] in [[Galilee]] rather than at [[Jerusalem]] and in [[Judea]]. | 147:0.2 Many of the household of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas Herod] believed in [[Jesus]] and attended these meetings. It was the [[influence]] of these [[believers]] among [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipoas Herod]'s official [[family]] that had helped to lessen that ruler's [[enmity]] toward [[Jesus]]. These believers at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberias Tiberias] had fully [[explained]] to Herod that the " [[the Kingdom|kingdom]] " which [[Jesus]] [[proclaimed]] was [[spiritual]] in [[nature]] and not a [[political]] venture. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas Herod] rather believed these members of his own household and therefore did not [[permit]] himself to become unduly alarmed by the spreading abroad of the reports concerning [[Jesus]]' teaching and [[healing]]. He had no objections to [[Jesus]]' [[work]] as a [[healer]] or religious [[teacher]]. Notwithstanding the favorable [[attitude]] of many of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas Herod]'s advisers, and even of Herod himself, there existed a [[group]] of his subordinates who were so [[influenced]] by the [[Sanhedrin|religious leaders]] at [[Jerusalem]] that they remained bitter and threatening enemies of [[Jesus]] and [[the apostles]] and, later on, did much to hamper their [[public]] [[activities]]. The greatest [[danger]] to [[Jesus]] lay in the [[Jerusalem]] religious [[leaders]] and not in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas Herod]. And it was for this very reason that [[Jesus]] and [[the apostles]] spent so much time and did most of their [[public]] [[preaching]] in [[Galilee]] rather than at [[Jerusalem]] and in [[Judea]]. |