You know him as the villain of the Christmas story, but King Herod was so much more.
Witness his rise to greatness as the young Arabian prince becomes one of the most powerful men in the Roman Empire. Caesar Augustus called him a counselor and friend. Cleopatra of Egypt tried to seduce him to her bed. Everyone wanted to be near Herod . . . but not too close, lest they fall beneath his murderous hand.
Herod built great monuments across his realm and bent land and sea to his will. Proud, ruthless, debauched, and fabulously rich, Herod lived an extravagant life like no one else in antiquity. But in the end, did he earn the title “King of the Jews”? Or was there someone else, someone nurtured by a teenaged girl of holy purity, who shows us the true nature of God’s anointed King?
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