Philip of Bethsaida.

Herod Philadelphus also called ‘Philip of Bethsaida,’ was about 14/15 years older than ‘Jesus’ who was born around 6 BC as the grandson of Alexander Helios [Heli,] and the son of Mary from the tribe of Levi, whose Aunty Elizabeth, were both, the daughters of the house of Levi.

Philip [Philadelphus] the son of Cleopatra and Herod the Great, married his niece Herodias the daughter of his half-brother Aristobulus, one of two sons of Miriamne, who were murdered by Herod the Great.

Philip [Philadelphus] the son of Cleopatra and Herod the Great, married his niece Herodias the daughter of his half-brother Aristobulus, one of two sons of Miriamne, who were murdered by Herod the Great.

Herodias the mother of Philips daughter, eventually left her husband Philip to live with his half-brother Herod Antipas in the tetrarch of Galilee.

After the death of his father, Herod the Great in 4 B.C, Philip was given control of southern Lebanon and modern Syria, to the east of the Lake Galilee.

In 34 AD, shortly after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Philip’s reign came to an abrupt end. Philip of Bethsaida simply vanishes from the pages of history, and in 36 AD, Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod the Great and nephew of Herod Philip and Herod Antipas, received the tetrarch of the Macedonian district of Batanaera and Trachonitis to the east of the sea of Galilee, formerly held by his uncle Philip.

When Herod Antipas and Herodias tried to discredit Agrippa I, who was in favour with the Emperor Caligula, they themselves were banished, Antipas’ tetrarch passing on to Agrippa 1 in AD 39. Then in 41 AD and after the assassination of Caligula, Agrippa’s support for Claudius was rewarded with the government of Judea, which had, since the banishment of Herod Archelaus, been ruled by Roman procurators for about 30 years. It was this Herod who enjoyed the support and adoration of the Jewish authorities, who did all in his power to crush the infant Jewish Apostolic Church.

It was he who executed James, the son Zebedee whose mother, is believed to have been named Salome, a sister of Jesus, and a close friend of Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s minister of finances, who was one of the women who supported Jesus using their own resources. And Agrippa would have killed Peter also, had he not have escaped from prison. Agrippa’s sudden death in 44 AD is recorded in Acts 12: 21-23.

Is there any record of Philip after the ascension of Jesus?