Mark 6:27 Meaning and Explanation
“And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,”
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Read Full Chapter →Herod immediately sends an executioner, who beheads John in the prison.
What Does Mark 6:27 Mean?
The order goes out at once. A soldier of the guard walks from the bright banquet hall to the dark cell, and the voice that cried in the wilderness is silenced without trial, without audience, without farewell.
John dies as he lived, outside the centers of comfort, faithful to the end. The forerunner precedes Jesus even in this: a righteous man handed to death by a weak ruler anxious to please a crowd. Heaven records what palaces ignore, and the worth of a life is measured by faithfulness, not by the manner of its ending.
Mark 6:27 in the Original Language
spekoulator (σπεκουλάτωρ), 'executioner' -- a soldier of the royal guard, from a Latin word for scout.
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What does Mark 6:27 mean?
Herod immediately sends an executioner, who beheads John in the prison.