The birth of Jeans Christ took place in the last year of Herod's' reign, four years earlier than the era from which the commas, system of chronology dates the years A.D. (Clinton, 'Fasti Ilelleuici.') II. Heston Arrseas, son of Herod the Great, was appointed by his father. will tetrarch of Galilee and Pessea. (Ancumaus.1 Ile built the city of Tiberias. About A.D. 20 he divorced the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia, and married his sisterdislaw Herodias. John the Baptist, having remonstrated against this marriage, was imprisoned In the castle of Machierue, and afterwards put to death. (Luke iii. 19, 20; Mark vi. 17.29.) About the same time Aretas marched against Antipes and defeated him. In A.D. 89 Autipas was accused by Agrippa, king of Judaea, of a secret understanding with the Parthians, and was banished by Caligula to Lyon.
III. Ilenon AGRIPPA, son of Aristobulus and grandson of Ilerod the Great, after experiencing many vicissitudes in early lifts was appointed, upon the accession of Caligula, king of the dominions formerly held by Philip, namely, Gaulanitia, Batanea, and Trachouitis, to which Caligula added the tetrarchy of Lysanias; and afterwards, when Antipas was banished, the tetrarehy of Galilee and Perma. Claudius
added Judaea and Samaria to his dominions. His government was popular with the Jews, to please whom he persecuted the Christians. (Acts xii. 1-3.) !ladled of a loathsome disease at Cassarea, in the third year of his reign over all Palestine, A.D. 44. (Acts xii. 20.23.) IV. Hanoi) AGRIPPA, sou of the above, was seventeen years old at the time of his father's death. Upon the death of Ilerod, king of Male's, four years afterwards, Claudius bestowed that kingdom upon Agrippa. He did not leave Rome till A.D. 53, when Claudius gave him the tetrarchice of Gaulanitia, Batanea, and Trachonitis. His dominions were enlarged by Nero. It was in A.D. 60 that the trial of Paul before Agrippa took place. (Acts xxvi.) Agrippa exerted him self to the utmost to keep down the spirit of revolt which was now constantly increasing among the Jews. When war broke out, Agrippa joined the Romans. After the taking of Jerusalem he retired with his sister Berenice to Rome, where he died at the age of about seventy years.