because King Herod was a part of the Roman Empire, and the Romans were against the Jews.
Which teaching helped to spread Christianity in the Roman Empire? Slaves and the poor could hope for a better life after death. The Gospels written in Greek by his followers. Why did the Jews distrust King Herod?
to Herod (Luke 23:7 )
King Herod the Great was hated by the Jews, as were his sons and successors. He was regarded as an outsider who led Roman troops in the final conquest of Jerusalem. Once established as king, Herod sought to gain favour among the Jews by rebuilding the Temple on a much grander scale, a project that eventually gained some support for him among the Jews.
King Herod was born in 73 BCE in Judea. Herod's mother was an ethnic Arab and his father was an Edomite. When Rome made Herod a client king, many Jews resented it. Although Herod was raised as a Jew, his alliance with Rome led many of his Jewish subjects despise him. Many Jews considered Herod an "outsider" and a "half Jew".
In the year 37 BCE.
Germany was highly Christian and Hitler got people to hate Jews by saying that the Jews killed Jesus. Which , according to the Christian New Testament , is true.
Yes, they told Herod that they were seeking the prophesied new born King of the Jews. They did not use any names as they did not know them, they did not even know where to look so they assumed that Herod would already know.
they saw King Herod who ruled over the Jews.
King Herod's father was an Idumean and his mother was a Nabatean Arab. The Idumeans and Nabateans were both semitic races, so Herod was semitic. His physical appearance would have been similar to the Arabs or Sephardic Jews of today.
On the death of Herod the Great in the year of our Lord's birth, his son Herod Antipas became tetrarch of Galilee, and reigned until A.D. 39, when he was banished by the Emperor Caligula. Galilee then came under the rule of Herod Agrippa I, who died in A.D. 44.
It is thought that Jesus was born in 7-2 B.C. and died in 30-33 A.D. From 37-4 B. C. the land of the Jews was ruled by Herod the Great as a client state of Rome. Herod the Great ordered the killing of all boys of the age of two and under in Bethlehem and its vicinity because he wanted Jesus dead. From 4 B.C. to 6 A.D Judea, Samaria and Idumea were ruled by Herod Archelaus, one of the sons of Herod the Great. In 6 A.D. on the request of the Jews, the emperor Augustus deposed Herod Archelaus and annexed Judea, Samaria and Idumea to the Roman Empire.
King Herod , King of the Jews so he killed all the boys in his land under the age of 2 but Jesus escaped.