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Joseph, wake up.

Oh, they're coming.

Leave.

Well, we got to.

We've got to hurry.

You got.

I don't know.

I want soldiers everywhere.

It's too late

To get the china to me.

I want to wear my crown. Boy.

Get your hands dirty.

The massacre of the innocents

Is a story which is only found in the gospel of matthew.

It's odd that outside the new testament,

Other people who write about the time

Period, like the ancient historian josephus,

Makes no mention of it.

But with that being said, based on archeology.

Bethlehem, around the time of the birth of jesus,

Contained less than a thousand people

Based on that.

The massacre of the innocents

Would have only have been about 10 to 30 infants.

Now, the infant mortality rates were incredibly high

In the ancient world, and the death of 10 to 30 babies

Would not have been a historical events

Would not have been recorded

And would not have been noteworthy.

90%. Sir.

Sir, sir.

Keep going.

We don't stop until they're all dead.

Yes. Yes, sir.

If you stop.

Oh! Oh.

So you done?

You killed them all.

Every single one.

Well, and that's.

We killed them all.

Every

Single one.

Herod must have believed that all the children were dead

And that he had successfully killed off the prophecy.

But he's wrong.

Mary and joseph pack up their baby

And all of their belongings,

And they move out of herod's territory.

They move to a safe place.

You should up.

I am like a camel.

And apparently

I smell like one too.

Do you think we are safe?

As long as herod is alive?

He will always be in danger.

You must keep moving.

Where would be safe to go?

That herod didn't have power or connections.

The answer would be egypt.

The trip is incredibly dangerous.

Hundreds of miles through valleys and hills.

My best guess would be mary joseph.

And the baby went down through what we would call today

The gaza strip to egypt.

As to how long they were

There, it's very hard to say, ha!

Great king.

That is what they called me.

But nobody understands the software vice

It takes to be great.

I have murdered sons,

Executed my wife,

Killed the things I love the most.

That is the price

Of being father.

Crowd not

What is.

Herod is dead.

You saw it.

We came to know

And to pass.

Brother.

Brother.

Your late

Need is not.

You're overcompensating for something.

If you're trying to impress

Our father, I'm afraid it's a little late for that.

Is it true that he

Stabbed himself?

It didn't work, though.

After a reign of more

Than 30 years, king herod is finally dead.

He tries on multiple occasions to commit suicide.

But ultimately, it was a case of gangrene

That moved from herod's genitals into his kidneys.

This was ultimately what led to herod's death.

Has anyone checked that

He's actually dead?

Come on.

We should be happy to be alive.

Yeah.

Lived our father.

And so many did not.

His final years

Were marked by a period of derangement and paranoia.

Nobody had been safe.

According to josephus, one of herod's last acts

Is to execute his eldest living son, antipater.

I am your. Son.

All right.

I have.

Others.

He was, in theory,

The chosen heir, the one who would succeed herod as king.

But he thought his son was plotting against him,

And he ordered his execution.

One brother less.

One brother

Closer to the throne. And.

And despite

Of herod's six surviving sons

And to pass an ark, julius believed that they have

The strongest claim to all of herod's

Territories.

What is a client?

King of rome. King

Herod's will has to be approved by the emperor augustus.

So both antipas and archilochus traveled to rome

To plead their own cases to all of their father's

Land.

Even from the grave,

Our father's hand reaches out to strangle us.

Finally, something we both agree on.

Neither son gets the big prize that they want.

Archeologist gets the territory around jerusalem.

Known as judea antipas gets galilee and perea and a third

Son, philip, gets the north eastern portion of the kingdom.

Herodias.

Do you remember my brother

Antipas?

I saw you at the funeral.

A sad day.

You know it beautifully.

Herodias is a jewish princess

From the hasmonean line and the hasmonean were

The jewish rulers who had ruled for about a century

Before king herod.

The royal pedigree

Makes herodias a particularly good catch.

She would bring prestige to anyone

Whom she married.

Now I won't have to kill you.

She will.

Herodias

And antipas meet in the city of rome.

They fall in love and they begin a love affair

That is, let us say, politically loaded.

The problem is herodias is already married.

She's actually the wife of antipas, his half brother

Herod, the second

According to matthew's gospel.

The holy family stays in egypt until herod the great is dead

And they can return to their home in nazareth.

The impression that we get is that the holy family

Had been living in egypt for some time.

We know that herod died in about two b.C.

Or a little earlier than that.

That means, of course, jesus was born b.C.

And our calendars are wrong.

I carried us on halfway across the desert.

I can manage this.

Living with more than we brought.

His eyes.

And him.

This the region of galilee, where mary

And joseph are traveling to, is particularly unsettled.

A local bandit named judas leads a number of rebels in

Capturing the city of severus, the capital of galilee.

Judas declares that he is going to establish

A true jewish dynasty to rule over a unified

And jewish judea.

The romans recaptured the city

And 2000 jews who were suspected

In participating in the rebellion are crucified by

The romans.

Do this so that everyone will know that rebels

And against rome is not possible.

Resistance is futile.

This violence was taking place on marian joseph's doorstep.

They may have witnessed this destruction or maybe even

The crucifixions from nazareth.

He said her head was dead.

He is.

This is the work of the romans.

Only they crucified.

All that work.

The selling of a tree,

The planning of the wood,

Forging of a nail

Just to kill a man.

This violence

Certainly affected the way that they lived

And perhaps the way that they raised jesus.

After the family returns.

To nazareth, there's

Basically a 30 year period before we know anything else.

About jesus.

The gospels

Don't tell us a lot about jesus early childhood.

We have to. Surmise a bit. What was jesus life like.

In the beginning?

God created the heavens and the earth.

Now the earth was formless and empty.

Darkness was over the surface of the deep,

And the spirit of god was hovering over the waters.

And god said, let there be light.

And that was light.

I think that most people would be surprised

That think of jesus with brothers and sisters.

All four gospels tell us that jesus had

Brothers and sisters.

The idea that jesus would have had brothers

And sisters

Makes a lot of catholics uncomfortable

Because of the idea and the belief

Of the perpetual virginity of mary.

Catholics would probably say

That these were step brothers and step sisters, maybe joseph's

Children from a former marriage.

I'm a protestant clergy, and we believe that once mary.

Gave birth to.

Jesus, she and joseph assumed.

A marital relationship

And god saw

That the light was good

And god separated the light from the darkness.

The fact that jesus had brothers and sisters or step

Brothers and sisters was reminds us that he had a real life,

That he comes from a family.

He lives in a real town.

He lives a real human life.

And the darkness he called night

And the evening and the morning

Were the first day.

One day you will teach me.

He will teach the world.

There is only one line that the gospel of luke

Gives us that covers about 20 years of jesus's life.

It says that he grew in wisdom and stature

And in favor with both god and man.

Judea is now

Directly ruled by rome as one of their provinces.

A few years before, it had

Been ruled by herod, our as one of herod, the great sons.

But he proved so cruel and stupid

That augustus finally got rid of him

And sent him off into exile in France.

In 26 a.D., a new roman governor arrives

In the province of judea by the name of pontius pilate.

May god to rise.

May his.

Enemies be scattered.

Highly to somebody that we actually know a fair

Bit about, because he's written about in external sources.

Like spoke.

Highly, comes from the equestrian class.

That's the lowest of the three roman noble classes.

And he's probably made a name for himself

Fighting barbarians on the fringes of the empire.

The lord is there to write and

He will crush kings until the day of his wrath.

He will judge the nations.

You know, the germans fought for their land and their families.

This is not a horde of religious fanatics like.

Wax well before the fire.

They all the wicked barbarous before god.

The lord is that your right hand

Will crush every ruler.

He will shock and crush kings.

You should learn.

To speak latin.

People might listen.

Unlike what we read in the gospels,

Particularly the gospel of john that paints

Pilot as a sympathetic character or maybe even philosophical

Pilot, was not a nice guy.

He was profoundly anti

Semitic, profoundly anti-semitic.

The judean people are a troublesome lot for any ruler,

But especially for and for an occupier.

If pilot is going to be successful,

The number one quality he has to have is diplomacy.

Unfortunately, that seems to be the quality

That pilot is especially lacking in

What looks.

Get me my robe now.

Early in his term

In office, pilot decides

That he's going to place the legions under his command

In wintered quarters in the city of jerusalem.

This means that the standards of the legions,

Which are themselves sacred objects and contained

Images of the deified roman emperor, are now

Going to be in the grounds of the jewish temple.

From the jewish perspective, this is an absolute outrage.

Pilot just doesn't care.

He's so blinded by his dislike of jews

That he doesn't think about it.

Upon hearing of the protests in jerusalem,

Antipas reaches out to pilot, trying to convince him

To back down to de-escalate

Savages.

I love.

These disturbances.

Continue as we have no choice but to respond with force.

Prefect all I demand is the removal

Of the images of the emperor.

I don't think you

Appreciate how very many jews who idols do.

I mean, I heard what happened when my father placed

An eclipse of the temple.

Temple?

Those people outside the entire province of judah

Is under the jurisdiction of.

Tiberius.

Right now.

He doesn't force you to worship,

And god seeks nothing in return except for the respect

Used to you.

All I ask is for a little tact.

I saw in the attacks when your brother slaughtered

Dozens of jewish worshipers on the steps of the temple.

I am not my brother.

And if you're not removed to standards

And I'll take my protests to the emperor himself.

And to pass decides to write

To the emperor tiberius, telling tiberius what has happened.

Telling tiberius perhaps this whole provincial experiment

Isn't a great idea and that maybe octopus

Should be given back control of his family's territory.

The jews are not

Happy about increasingly direct roman rule,

But they're not strong enough to kick these rulers out.

So instead, resistance takes other forms

On the banks of the jordan is a prophet

Who thinks the romans days are numbered.

Repent

For the kingdom of heaven is at hand.