Is the holy innocents story about the innocents? (Matthew 2:13–23)
"What an awful story," she said. "Why would that story be in the Bible?"
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We sat around the conference table in our church library, our Bibles open to the Gospel of Matthew. We had compared Matthew’s genealogy with Luke’s; we had read the story of the magi. Now we were studying the story of Herod killing the baby boys in Bethlehem in an attempt to rid himself of a rival for the throne.
