antipas

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antipas - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Antipas
  (1.) Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great by his Samaritan
  wife Malthace. He was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea during the
  whole period of our Lord's life on earth (Luke 23:7). He was a
  frivolous and vain prince, and was chargeable with many infamous
  crimes (Mark 8:15; Luke 3:19; 13:31, 32). He beheaded John the
  Baptist (Matt. 14:1-12) at the instigation of Herodias, the wife
  of his half-brother Herod-Philip, whom he had married. Pilate
  sent Christ to him when he was at Jerusalem at the Passover
  (Luke 23:7). He asked some idle questions of him, and after
  causing him to be mocked, sent him back again to Pilate. The
  wife of Chuza, his house-steward, was one of our Lord's
  disciples (Luke 8:3).
  
    (2.) A "faithful martyr" (Rev. 2:13), of whom nothing more is
  certainly known.