Mark 3:6

Straightway. It may perhaps be inferred from this that the Pharisees retired from the synagogue immediately, even before the close of the service.

Herodians. The Herodians were a Jewish political party that favored the house of Herod (see p. 54). Normally the Pharisees hated Herod and all that he stood for (see p. 41). The fact that they now sought the aid of their avowed enemies is evidence that they were beside themselves to find a means of silencing Jesus (see on Matt. 22:16). Perhaps the obdurate Pharisees hoped that Herod would be willing to imprison Jesus as he had John the Baptist a few months earlier (see on Matt. 4:12; Luke 3:20). Some have suggested that this incident may have occurred in the city of Sepphoris, Herod’s capital, some 4 mi. north of Nazareth.