If
anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his
Father’s glory with the holy angels.
34Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
King Herod was actually fearful of John the Baptist because he was a righteous and Holy man. He only had his head beheaded because he had an oath with Herodias daughter that he would grant her a wish. Her mother informed her that she should ask for John the Baptist head.
Those
who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh
desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their
minds set on what the Spirit desires