Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Antipas (1.) Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great by his Samaritan wife Malthace. According to the Bible, he was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea during the entire lifetime of Jesus. (Luke 23:7). The Biblical account describes Herod Antipas as follows. He is characterized as a frivolous and vain prince, and charged with many infamous crimes (Mark 8:15; Luke 3:19; 13:31, 32). He is held to have beheaded John the Baptist (Matt. 14:1-12) at the instigation of Herodias, the wife of his half-brother Herod-Philip, whom he had married. According to the Bible, Pilate sent Jesus to him when he was at Jerusalem at the Passover (Luke 23:7). Herod Antipas asked some idle questions of him, and after causing him to be mocked, sent him back again to Pilate. The wife of Chuza, Herod Antipas's house-steward, was one of Jesus's disciples (Luke 8:3). (2.) A "faithful martyr" (Rev. 2:13), of whom nothing more is certainly known. From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), with subsequent editing. Standard Wikipedia warning on such articles: This is an article from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. This article is written from a nineteenth century Christian viewpoint, and may not reflect modern opinions or recent discoveries in Biblical scholarship. Please help the Wikipedia by bringing this article up to date. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.