Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Pilate being governor of Judea, literally, procurator; i.e. with a subordination to the president of Syria. (Witham)
This was Herod Antipas, son of Herod the great, mentioned in Chap. i, ver. 5.