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“And when Herod saw Jesus…he hoped to have seen some miracle done by Him…and Herod with his men of war set Him at nought, and mocked Him, and arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him again to Pilate” (Luke 23:8,11).
The Herod mentioned in this verse was the son of the Herod who had tried to kill the Lord Jesus when He was a young child. He had heard of the Lord Jesus, and knew that He performed many miracles. At one point, he even thought that the Lord Jesus was John the Baptist risen from the dead. When Pilate sent the Lord Jesus to Herod, he was anxious to see a miracle. But when the Lord Jesus would not answer him nor perform a miracle, he treated Him shamefully, mocking Him, and putting a gorgeous robe on Him.
Herod was curious, but He did not care for the Lord Jesus. Although all His miracles proved who the Lord Jesus was, yet Herod would not believe. A few years later the Roman Emperor took away Herod’s position and banished him to a distant part of the Roman Empire.
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