For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

According to the Bible, Herod was obsessed with finding the baby who could threaten his power, so much so that he ordered a search for Jesus, ripping several baby boys that were born in Bethlehem ...

King Solomon, Zerubbabel and Herod the Great share a unique distinction in history – they each had the privilege of building the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Yet while the Bible tells us much about ...

When the 5,000 people gathered to hear Him speak became hungry, He listened. He fed them. Jesus, like my Nanny, would also get annoyed when people had an issue but didn’t simply ask for help ...

For some reason those lessons seem not to have got through to Herod the Great. But they were what Jesus was all about—right from the start, as His family became refugees, seeking asylum in Egypt ...

(The Conversation) — Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth. (The Conversation) — King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s ...

Its framing asks: What does John have to tell us about Jesus? Before the flashback to John starts, Herod thinks of John in the first place because Jesus’ name is in the air. Jesus’ deeds have ...

“It was in a time when people were really expecting something to happen after Herod the Great died.” The New Testament says those expectations were confirmed when Jesus began his public ...

Herod’s slaughter is an attempt to kill the newborn Jesus, fearing the baby could grow into a future ruler able to threaten his authority. The story of Herod’s atrocity displays essential ...

Netflix’s Mary—a new biblical film about the mother of Jesus Christ that began streaming ... Ridley Scott set that Mary borrowed for King Herod’s palace in Jerusalem. Directed by D.J ...

As many did, I reflected on the last week of Jesus leading up to Easter. I love when something different jumps out of scripture at me, even if I’ve ready it a hundred times. It struck me by ...

It’s about to open again, with Michael Paynter as Jesus, Javon King as Judas, Mahalia Barnes as Mary Magdalene and comedian and outré cabaret singer Reuben Kaye as King Herod. Doug Parkinson as ...