Herodias was a grand-daughter of Herod the Great, and married her uncle Herod, the disinherited son of Herod the Great. She subsequently married Antipas, the Herod who is said to have put John to death. Herod's brother Philip (Tetrarch of Trachonitis and Gaulonitis) was not the son of Marianne, as the first husband of Herodias was, but the son of Cleopatra. Philip's wife was Salome, the daughter of Herodias. The daughter of Herodias, instead of being a damsel dancing at the court of Herod, as the Synoptics declare, was at this time the wife of an aged ruler of a foreign province. According to Whiston, she became a widow in the very year in which John died. Herodias was not the wife, but the mother-in-law of Herod's brother Philip. Whiston, in his translation of Josephus, attempts to gloss over the Synoptics' error by inserting in brackets after Herod the word "Philip." Scribners' "Bible Dictionary" concedes the error and accounts for it "By supposing that there is a confusion between the first husband and the son-in-law of Herodias, for her daughter Salome married Philip the tetrarch." 175 What is said of the numbers baptized by Jesus and his disciples as compared with those baptized by John? John: "The Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John. (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples.)" (iv, 1, 2.) Matthew (iii, 5) and Mark (i, 5) declare that John had baptized "Jerusalem and all Judea." It is admitted, both in the New Testament and by Christians, that Jesus made but few converts during his lifetime, and to assert or intimate that he and his disciples baptized more than John is preposterous. 176 Who furnished the loaves and fishes with which the multitude in the desert was fed? Synoptics: The disciples (Matt. xiv, 15-17; Mark vi, 35-38; Luke ix, 12, 13). John: "A lad" (vi, 9). 177 How many were fed? Mark: "And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men" (vi, 44). Matthew: "And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children" (xiv, 21). 178 Where did this miracle occur? Luke: "In a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida" (ix, 10). Mark says that after the miracle "He constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida" (vi, 45). If the miracle was performed in a place belonging to the city of Bethsaida, as stated by Luke, they did not cross the sea to reach Bethsaida, as stated by Mark. 179 After feeding the five thousand what did Jesus do? Matthew and Mark: "He sent the multitudes away" (Matt. xiv, 22; Mark vi, 45). John: He did not send the multitude away, but withdrew himself into a mountain (vi, 15). 180 For what purpose did he go to the mountain? Matthew and Mark: "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain, apart to pray" (Matt. xiv, 23; Mark vi, 46).