Luke 9:9

9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

Ver. 9. And he desired to see him ] With a faint and fruitless desire: for he never stirred out-of-doors to see Christ, though he believed that God had raised him from the dead. So true is that of Abraham, Luke 16:31 . Perhaps he desired to see whether it were John or not.