Knowing Your Herods by Revd Professor Andrew Lewis

Endelienta’s new Reflective Day: Knowing Your Herods by Revd Professor Andrew Lewis

“We have all heard of the Massacre of the Innocents by king Herod. But how did he become king of the Jews? Weren’t the Romans in charge? And how is he connected with the Herod who married his brother’s wife and put John the Baptist to death? And who was the Herod who put St James to death and was then eaten up by worms and died? Is the Herod Agrippa who is found trying the case against St Paul a relative? And what can we usefully learn about the writing of Scripture and its message from all this?”