“But Herod said, ‘John I beheaded. Who then is this about whom I hear such things?’ And he kept trying to see him.” In the Gospel reading according to Luke, Herod is perplexed by Jesus. Who is this Jesus he kept hearing about, and what does it mean that he kept trying to see him? This episode is also available as a blog post: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com/2022/09/22/thursday-of-the-twenty-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time/