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Philip the tetrarch

Tetrarch of Iturea and Trachonitis, 4 BC – AD 34Reigned 37 years

Luke 3:1; Matthew 16:13

Herod's son, remembered as a mild and fair ruler. He rebuilt Panias as Caesarea Philippi, where Peter confessed Jesus as the Christ (Matthew 16:13–16), and enlarged Bethsaida. He died in the 20th year of Tiberius, AD 34, and his territory later passed to Herod Agrippa I. Not the same man as the Philip whose wife Herodias left him (Mark 6:17).

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