According to the Gospel of Luke 23:1-12:
23 Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.”
3 So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
“You have said so,” Jesus replied.
4 Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
5 But they insisted, “He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here.”
6 On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean. 7 When he learned that Jesus was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.
8 When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see him. From what he had heard about him, he hoped to see him perform a sign of some sort. 9 He plied him with many questions, but Jesus gave him no answer. 10 The chief priests and the teachers of the law were standing there, vehemently accusing him. 11 Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate. 12 That day Herod and Pilate became friends—before this they had been enemies.
That is Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, one of the surviving sons of Herod the Great.
This is probably the only time you’ll find me embedding anything composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber—
No, let me rephrase that.
This is the only time I’ll ever embed anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Period.
But the concept album of Jesus Christ Superstar came out when I was at Penn State and for brief time it was all the rage.
There are quite a few videos of “King Herod’s Song” to be found on YouTube, but they are all way over-the-top, painting Herod as a silly fop, and most of the performers don’t really sing the song, probably because they can’t sing a note, so I couldn’t see my way to embed them here.
Thus, here is the first and best Herod: Mike d’Abo from the original concept album of Jesus Christ Superstar.