the king was sogry] Because he knew John to be unjustly condemned, and might fear an insurrection. for the oaths sake] He makes no conscience of taking his brothers wife, and Johns head, yet would be thought to make conscience of an oath: as if the same God that forbids perjury, had not forbidden incest and murder, James 2:10-11. and them which sate with him at meat] Either he feared they would account him a perjured man; or, they, in favour to Herodias, pressed him to perform his oath.