<p>6:14 <em>And king Herod heard of it, for Jesus' name had become well known- </em>When the disciples went out preaching around Israel, Herod heard of the fame of <em>Jesus</em>- because they so manifested Him.</p><p><em>And he said: John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these powers work in him</em>- The Lord's relationship with His cousin John provides an exquisite insight into both His humanity and His humility. The people thought that Jesus was John the Baptist resurrected. Perhaps this was because they looked somehow similar, as cousins?</p><p>The idea of bodily resurrection was around in the first century, but very often in the sense of a dead person not really dying but returning&nbsp;<em>redivivus</em>&nbsp;in another form. This was widely believed about Nero- and there are allusions to the legend of Nero&nbsp;<em>redivivus&nbsp;</em>in Revelation (they are deconstructed there as being untrue- the ultimate resurrection was of the Lord Jesus, not Nero). Herod's words show that a 'resurrected' person was expected to do great miracles as proof of their resurrection. The Lord's resurrection was likewise accompanied by &quot;mighty works&quot;- but not by Him personally, but by the community of believers. This accommodation to contemporary views of resurrection was therefore a way of demonstrating that the believers doing the miracles after the Lord's resurrection were being presented to society as Jesus&nbsp;<em>redivivus</em>; as if they truly were the body of Jesus revived. Which of course they were, and we are. Paul uses the same Greek word translated &quot;show forth themselves&quot; to describe how the Lord Jesus worked through both Peter and himself through the doing of miracles (Gal. 2:8; 3:5).&nbsp;</p><p><em>And therefore do these powers work in him</em>- The Greek could more likely mean &lsquo;the powers&rsquo;, a reference to the popular beliefs in various &lsquo;powers&rsquo; rather than one God. Jn. 10:41 is plain that &ldquo;John did no miracle&rdquo;, and yet such was the evident spirituality of John that the theory quickly arose that the miracles of Jesus were really being done by John&nbsp;<em>redivivus</em>.</p>