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Conception of herod the great based on the gospel of matthew is fair. >> kill them all. >> it exaggerates his ruthlessness and his willingness to commit murder in order to preserve his rule. >> he's an adept politician. he's a remarkable military leader. he is someone who rules for over 30 years, a really very good ruler and none of this is information you get from reading the bible. >> but is this sarcophagus really the final resting place of king herod? when archeologists discover it after a 35-year search among the ruins of herodium, the limestone coffin is in hundreds of frag meants. >> we...

Horror of the massacre of the innocence. dozens of children being murdered in their homes. it must have been terrifying. >> stay down. don't move. stay down. >> how do you hide your child from an evil king like herod who is bent on destroying these children out of a loss for power. >> according to the story in matthew, joseph is warned in the

Street that herod is a threat to their newborn child and they get out of town fast. >> they wanted to make sure that they were nowhere near herod's homicidal graph. >> herod probably thought he had killed all the children in bethlehem, but he never knew that jesus had escaped. >> matthew says the to escape the massacre, mary and joseph flee to egypt. like any couple with a child, mary and joseph would have been over joyed to know that their son still safe. they are human beings, we have to remember, they have the same human emotions that any parent will have. >> mary and joseph, as they reache...

Right. >> they have something of a delima, do they return to herod and report to them and leave and there by face the wrath of herod who might pursue them. >> they know his intentions are not good and so they ignore. they ignore the king and they go a different route out of a sense of protecting this child in whom they have seen god. >> i have news about it. they have chosen not to return to jerusalem. >> herod's reaction is

It was the religious center. the place where god's presence was understood to reside on earth. >> despite herod's achievement. early in his crown is not. >> he wants to call himself the king of the judea. he himself is not jewish. >> he sold it the most famous. >> her family ruled judea for a century before herod took the throne. >> for herod marrying the princess gives him the