Antipas, a son of Herod the Great, ruled Galilee and Peraea as tetrarch from 4 BC to AD 39, so Jesus’s Galilean ministry took place in his territory. He built Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee and rebuilt Sepphoris near Nazareth. Caligula exiled him to Gaul in 39.
Both Josephus and the Gospels say he had John the Baptist executed; Josephus gives political fear as the reason, the Gospels John’s criticism of his marriage to Herodias. Luke alone says Pilate sent Jesus to him during the trial; the Gospel of Peter makes ‘Herod the king’ order the crucifixion, and Ignatius speaks of Jesus nailed ‘under Pontius Pilate and Herod the tetrarch’.
Where to start
Every mention
10 writings- AD 85The Gospel of MatthewThe New Testament2×
- AD 85The Gospel of LukeThe New Testament7×
- AD 85The Acts of the ApostlesThe New Testament1×
- AD 93Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book 18: the Testimonium Flavianum and John the BaptistWitnesses Outside the Church4×
- AD 110Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the SmyrnaeansThe Early Church2×
- AD 150The Gospel of Peter (Akhmim Fragment)The Other Gospels1×
- AD 170Tatian’s DiatessaronThe Other Gospels3×
- AD 248Origen, Against Celsus, Book IThe Early Church1×
- 2026Guide to the research and the world before JesusThe Dossier1×
- 2026Jesus’s life: a chronological catalogue of the canonical narrativesThe Dossier2×