Matthew and Luke correct Mark's "Herod the king" into "Herod the tetrarch," tho Matthew a few verses later falls back into the error which he has corrected. Mark says that Herod himself surmised that Jesus was John the Baptist risen from the dead (tho some texts read ἔλεγον for ἔλεγεν in vs. 14). Matthew follows Mark in this by saying distinctly that Herod "said to those about him, it is John," etc. Luke says Herod had heard of the things Jesus did, "and was perplexed because _it was said_ that John was risen." Luke may here have been following one text of Mark and Matthew another text. The fact that with ἔλεγεν in Mark's vs. 14, his vs. 16 is a mere repetition of this verse (Matthew omits the parallel to Mark's vs. 16), may indicate either that ἔλεγον is the original reading of vs. 14, or that Luke, finding ἔλεγεν there, corrected it into his own statement which upon the face of it is much better. Luke does not represent Herod as personally making any such statement about John, but says merely that when Herod heard of the deeds of Jesus and of the explanation that was popularly given for them, he desired to see Jesus. THE DEATH OF THE BAPTIST (Mk vi, 17-29; Mt xiv, 3-12) Luke has omitted this because he has long ago finished with the Baptist (in iii, 19-20). The passage seems to be parenthetical in Mark, to explain Herod's statement that he has killed John the Baptist. Mark says Herod did _not_ wish to kill John, because he regarded him as a just and holy man. Matthew says Herod _wished_ to kill John, but _feared the people_, because _they_ considered John a prophet. Matthew's difference here may be due to a different tradition which he considered superior to Mark's, or it may be due simply to the abbreviation he has made in Mark's narrative. Mark's account contains the somewhat improbable feature of the daughter of Herodias dancing before the drunken tetrarch and his companions; which Matthew omits. The Latin word σπεκουλάτωρ in Mark (vi, 27) is dropped in Matthew. THE RETURN OF THE DISCIPLES AND THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND (Mk vi, 30-44; Mt xiv, 13-21; Lk ix, 10-17)