And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
Ver. 9. And he desired to see him] With a faint and fruitless desire: for he never stirred out-of-doors to see Christ, though he believed that God had raised him from the dead. So true is that of Abraham, Luke 16:31. Perhaps he desired to see whether it were John or not.