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In the shadowed drama of Jesus’ trial before Pilate and Herod, Luke 23:8 offers a moment both fleeting and revealing. Here, we find Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, encountering Jesus for the first time. The verse records not just an act of seeing, but a complex interplay of expectation, longing, and narrative irony.

ὁ δὲ Ἡρῴδης ἰδὼν τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐχάρη λίαν· ἦν γὰρ ἐξ ἱκανοῦ θέλων ἰδεῖν αὐτὸν διὰ τὸ ἀκούειν αὐτὸν πολλὰ περὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἤλπιζέ τι σημεῖον ἰδεῖν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ γινόμενον.

This single sentence pulses with grammatical richness—particularly in its use of participles and infinitives that layer meaning onto the act of seeing and desiring.… Learn Koine Greek