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The author of Luke's Gospel was entirely unaware of the threat to Jesus or the Slaughter of the Innocents that followed, since he had the young family travel into danger at Jerusalem rather than fleeing to Egypt. He also described Mary and Joseph travelling to Jerusalem each year for the Passover, once again placing Jesus in danger if indeed such danger existed. The first century Jewish historian, Josephus, who recounted everything he knew to the detriment of Herod, never mentions the Slaughter of the Innocents. For these and other reasons, New Testament scholars say that King Herod did not really kill the infant boys.
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Why was it a good decision not to tell Herod where Jesus was?
So that Herod wouldn't send his men to kill Him. They knew this because they received a warning in a dream, and they believed that warning, so they took a different route home. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The specific Bible verse is Matthew 1:13. When they [the Magi] had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." King Herod was a wicked man who feared the coming of the Messiah. Joseph received the same warning that the wise men received, advising them of Herod's desire to kill Jesus. In fact, Herod's cruelty is revealed in verse 16; When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he war furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. These quotations are from the New International Version Bible.
Where did the angel tell Joseph to go to protect his family from king herod?
The angel never actually said to go to a town. He merely said to flee to Egypt and to wait for Herod to die.
Why do the children wait backstage until the audience has left the school in to kill a mockingbird?
The children wait backstage until the audience has left the school in "To Kill a Mockingbird" because Atticus Finch doesn't want them to be exposed to the racist comments and attitudes of the community members after the trial of Tom Robinson. He is trying to protect them from the harsh realities of racism and prejudice in society.
You have 2 female lovebirds who are sitting on 4 eggs eachSadly the male got away Can you put another male with them or do you wait until the babies have left the nest?
I have budgies But I think if you put a different male lovebird in with them he would kill the babies or eat the eggs because they wouldn't be his.I would wait until they leave the nest to be safe.
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just wait for the respawn.
Should you wait and get the 4th generation ipod touch or get the 3rd generation?
Wait for the 5th generation. That's what I am doing. It won't kill you to wait
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cheese :) :p how would i know wait isn't male spray boy wee wee
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Wait and see
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you put a male and female together and you wait.
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Boy kill boy are reforming and are working on their third album cant wait :-)
The hungry children had to wait for what in Pioneer Girl?
Second.
Why did king Herod wait until Jesus was two years old to look for Him?
AnswerThe Bible does not say that King Herod waited until Jesus was two years old before he looked for him. Matthew's Gospel, in which this story appears, merely says that when Herod realised that the magi were not returning, he ordered all the infants under two years old to be slaughtered. This has led some to believe that Jesus could have been up to two years old. John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A bishop rethinks the birth of Jesus) says that Matthew was clearly writing Christian midrash. He had Joseph take his family to Egypt just as the patriarch Joseph had done, in order to escape death, and the killing of all male babies reflects Moses. On the view of Spong and many other biblical scholars, King Herod knew nothing of the birth of Jesus.
