Yes, the gifts that the Magi gave the Christ child funded the trip as they hid from King Herod. All the gifts were very expensive. They could be easily sold for money. Joseph and Mary then had money for the trip and to live on.
This tradition is said to be based on the generousity and kindness of the three kings, or three wise men, who visited the Christ child and brought him valuable gifts. Afterward, they bravely defied King Herod and did not return to him to let him know the location of the Holy Family.
No one knows exactly when king Herod was born. In some historic documentation, it says Herod was born about 73, and died about 4 BC. But, this would have to be totally wrong, since Herod was king when Jesus Christ was born, and also had ordered that thousands of male infants be murdered in order to destroy the Christ Child.
Herod
King Herod the Great .
This tradition is said to be based on the generousity and kindness of the three kings, or three wise men, who visited the Christ child and brought him valuable gifts. Afterward, they bravely defied King Herod and did not return to him to let him know the location of the Holy Family.
December 28 is the feast of the Holy Innocents, the babies murdered by King Herod when he was searching for the Christ Child.
King Herod.
All Jerusalem was troubled when Herod the king heard from the wise men that they had seen the star in the east, of the King of the Jews. Herod then told the wise men to let him know as soon as they had found the young child; for, said he, "I may worship him too." Matthew 2.1-12)But of course, as we hear later, Herod wanted to kill the child.
IF you meant Herod - he was the ruler of Israel at the time of the birth of Christ.
The relationship was that they were cousins. Jesus gave Herod his sister Mary Magdeline, hand in marriage as a gift, for the Trojan Horse King Herod built. John the Baptist did not know Herod was his brother until the end of the holocaust.
The biblical Bad Guy was I believe Herod Antipas. The song about him in the (jesus Christ superstar) is disgusting and blasphemous. It"s Herod not Herrod, they would be pronounced the same.
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