this kind of massacre, and you would think given all the other massacres he talks about that he would bring it up. >> it does tell us something about the way that herod's character was understood by lots of ancients. it's the kind of story they told about herod as a paranoid, neurotic king who was capable of great barbarism. >> the massacre of the innocents is not historical but what it does for matthew, it makes jesus look like a new moses. in the old testament, pharaoh tries to kill baby moses by slaughtering all of the hebrew children. matthew, by sharing herod slaughtering all this children in bethlehem is sharing that jesus is like moses, and herod is like the pharaoh. >> so who is the true king herod? and can history and archaeology reveal the man behind the myth? smoothies! only from tums energy is amazing.