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• Ruler who had Jesus Christ mocked was from a disreputable family

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - What kind of man was the ruler who killed John the Baptist and mocked Jesus Christ before his crucifixion?

Herod Antipas, tetrarch over Galilee and Perea from 4 B.C. to 39 A.D., was to an extent a reflection of his father, King Herod the Great, who had ordered the murders of all the boys in Bethlehem under age 2 in an attempt to kill Jesus just after he was born, ministers say.

The Revs. Larry Long and Todd Salzwedel and minister Greg Fleming say Herod Antipas was first a politician who weighed everything he did by how it would make him look and second was the offspring of a family steeped in double-dealing and murder ...

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