Herod’s Confusion about Jesus

7  Now Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was happening, and he was thoroughly perplexed, because some people were saying that John had been raised from the dead, 8  while others were saying that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had risen. 9  Herod said, “I had John beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.