But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men ...

King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised ...

In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts how the king orders the death of all baby boys following the birth of Jesus, an event called ...

The matter right now is not just the global backlash against refugees but the glee with which some anti-refugee figures ...

According to the Bible, this happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before ... It currently features a 35-acre platform built by King Herod, who was the Roman-appointed king of Judaea ...

Here is a historical example. Herod was the Roman-appointed King of Judea when a baby boy named Jesus was born to Mary and Joseph in a manger. This poor couple lived in a foreign land. The child ...

King Herod was partly of Jewish descent ... This is another example of Matthew referring to the Old Testament and showing how Jesus has fulfilled it. The Magi have a symbolic role to play in ...

In Matthew’s narrative, Jesus’ birth is detected by foreign priests, the magi; in Luke it is lowly Jewish shepherds who first learn the news. In Matthew’s narrative, King Herod in Jerusalem hunts ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago.

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) spent her financially distressed final decade enthralled by the life of King Herod and working on a novel about him. The books of the 1930s and ’40s that made her ...

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock classic Jesus Christ Superstar returns to its roots with this sensational performance ...