{His servants} (	ois paisin autou). Literally "boys," but
here the courtiers, not the menials of the palace. {Work in him}
(energousin). Cf. our "energize." "The powers of the invisible
world, vast and vague in the king's imagination" (Bruce). John
wrought no miracles, but one _redivivus_ might be under the
control of the unseen powers. So Herod argued. A guilty
conscience quickened his fears. Possibly he could see again the
head of John on a charger. "The King has the Baptist on the
brain" (Bruce). Cf. Josephus (_War_, I. xxx. 7) for the story
that the ghosts of Alexander and Aristobulus haunted the palace
of Herod the Great. There were many conjectures about Jesus as a
result of this tour of Galilee and Herod Antipas feared this one.