Note at Matthew 14:1-2 - How many today have "heard of the fame of Jesus" but like Herod totally misunderstand Him. They need to hear not of the fame but of the truth of Jesus! He is not to be a fad or a fashion or a cultural icon. He is the Way, the Truth, the Life.
Note throughout chapter - Notice how Herod is wrongly motivated to please, impress and placate others: "For Herodias' sake," v. 3; "feared the multitude," v. 5; "promised with an oath," v. 7; "and them which sat with him," v. 9. See also Acts 12:3, "because he saw it pleased the Jews." Herod therefore rightly called a "fox" by Jesus in Luke 13:32.
Note at 14:15-21 - The only miracle of Jesus recorded by all four Gospels (besides the Resurrection).
Matthew 14:21 - And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
Not the "feeding of the five thousand," but more like the ten or twenty thousand.
VM
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