Herod and his people were now worried with mutual distrust.

He had no faith in any man, and no man--not even the emperor by whose sufferance he held the crown--had any faith in him.

The king feared the people and the people feared the king.
Herod began his career with good purposes.

An erect, powerful, and handsome youth of Arabic and Idumaean blood, brave with lance and charger, he raided the bandit chieftain Hezekias and slew him, with all his followers.

The Sanhedrim thought not of his valor but only of the ancient law he had broken.