The story of John the Baptist and Herod is quite interesting. We start out the readings today basically a reading from, relating to, Jeremiah, where the word comes to Jeremiah and God basically says, “You are going to be a prophet and you are going to have problems.”

And we see John the Baptist. Now John the Baptist has not been presented in history as someone who is mealy-mouthed. John said what he meant, and he meant what he said and there wasn’t a whole lot of equivocation in what he said.

And he was a prophet. He was quite fiery. Strong personality. And he went out and preached.

And he said a lot of bad things about Herod, but he particularly said things about Herodias.