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Selected Verse: Luke 9:9 - King James

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Lu 9:9 King James And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
desired to see him--but did not, till as a prisoner He was sent to him by Pilate just before His death, as we learn from Luk 23:8.
 
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8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.