Why did king Herod want Jesus killed?

Answer 1

Herod was a King, and he saw Jesus as a threat to his throne. When kings see a threat to their thrones, they have the threat removed. Most kings are tyrants who do not want to share power. There can be only one king per kingdom, and Herod wanted to remain the only king in the kingdom. He was a wicked, evil king.

Answer 2

AnswerNo. According to Luke's Gospel, Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the capital, Jerusalem, quite shortly after his birth for the Temple ceremonies. They then travelled peacefully back to Galilee.

Yes. According to Matthew's Gospel, Mary and Joseph fled with Jesus from Bethlehem to Egypt after the birth of Jesus, so that Herod would not harm him. Herod was so anxious to have Jesus killed that he ordered the death of all infants under two years old. Some scholars suggest that Matthew wrote this story to draw parallels between Jesus and Moses.

Answer 3

Because he was the promised messiah to the Jews and gentiles all alike...............

AnswerKing Herod had been appointed King of Judah by the Romans: he was not a Jew- he was an "Idumean", (also known as Edomites, historical enemies of the Jews).

...Meanwhile, Octavian and Mark Antony had defeated Brutus and Cassius (at Philippi, in 42). Herod managed to convince Mark Antony, who made a tour through the eastern provinces that had supported Caesar's murderers, that his father had been forced to support their side. The Roman leader was convinced, and awarded Herod with the title of tetrarch of Galilee, a title that was commonly used for the leaders of parts of vassal kingdoms. (Herod's brother Phasael was to be tetrarch of Jerusalem; Hyrcanus remained the Jewish national leader in name only.)

This appointment caused a lot of resentment among the Jews. After all, Herod was not a Jew. He was the son of a man from Idumea; and although Antipater had been a pious man who had worshipped the Jewish God sincerely, the Jews had always looked down upon the Idumeans as racially impure. Worse, Herod had an Arabian mother, and it was commonly held that one could only be a Jew when one was born from a Jewish mother. ...

(From article "King Herod the Great" at http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodians/herod_the_great01.HTML )

Remembering that the "wise men from the East" had come all the way from Persia (which was at war with Rome at the time and by chance Herod just happened to have no Roman Legions in Jerusalem at the time to protect himself) , and Herod had been appointed king, just imagine how Herod would have felt when they told him they were looking for "the one who [WA]s born king of the Jews" :-

Matthew 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem 2 saying, "Where is the one who is born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose1 and have come to worship him." 3 When King Herod heard this he was alarmed,and all Jerusalem with him.

King Herod being "alarmed" would have been an understatement: he was terrified of losing the throne he had gained through political machinations in favour of the rightful heir, and his answer to problems was to kill them. History agrees that Herod was paranoid at the best of times, and this would have sent him over the edge

Answer 4

King Herod wanted Jesus killed because the three wisemen came to his palace and demanded to kn ow where is he born king of the Jews. The three wisemen thought he would be a king and be born in a palace and never thought he would be born in a manger. Herod did not want any king in his place.

Answer 5

Herod the Great is the Herod that tried to kill Jesus by sending men to Bethelhem to kill all the babies 2 years and younger. Herod the great had 7 sons by 5 wives.

Antipater, Alexander, Aristobulus, Herod Philip I, Herod Archaelaus, Herod Antipas, and Herod Philip II.

Answer 6

no he tricked them by saying he wanted to worship him too