would have. >> mary and joseph, as they reached egypt with that precious child, must have felt tremendous relief, but they also must have wondered, "what now?" in a foreign land. what do you do? how do you live? >> but some scholars question if the massacre of the innocents is a real historical event. >> kill them all. >> josephus does not talk about 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.