Matthew's Gospel tells of King Herod's vicious plot against the infant Jesus after being "tricked" by the Wise Men. Threatened by the one "born King of the Jews." Herod murdered all the children in and around Bethlehem who wee two years old or younger (Matthew 2:16-18). These "innocents," commemorated just three days after the celebration of Jesus' birth, remind us not only of the terrible brutality of which human beings are capable but more significantly of the persecution Jesus endured from the beginning of His earthly life. Although Jesus' life was providentially spared at this tie, many years later, another ruler, Pontius Pilate, would sentence the innocent Jesus to death.
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