<p>6:19 <em>And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him; but she could not</em>- Mt. 14:5 says that Herod also wanted to kill John, but feared the people. The same Greek words are&nbsp;used about Herod wanting to kill Jesus in Lk. 13:31. A manipulative woman arranging the death of a prophet through a weak willed ruler recalls Jezebel in 1 Kings 21; and she was a protagonist of Elijah, upon whom John the Baptist was clearly modelled.</p>