Why is the story of Herod and the Magi and Child Jesus in the Bible?

Well, we covered one reason at the tail end of the last conversation,

and that is I think it's supposed to model what it looks like for a wise person to size up the situation and

respond with wisdom. Jesus is credible and no matter what context you're

coming from even as weird and foreign and it seems like

it should be an outsider thing and like oh that's not how people sign up for Jesus

well apparently it is and even if it's quirky or different we see a great example of

outsiders for whom this was always intended signing up to follow Jesus when we look

at this story I think another reason that this story needs to be in the Bible is to answer an obvious question that everybody would have been asking when they picked up this document describing stuff 40, 50, 60 years after it happened.

And that is, well, what about when they killed all those babies?

Remember when the King went nuts?

And he sent government goons around to knock on our doors

and just kill our babies?

Because he had some weird paranoia issue or something. and just

kill our babies because he had some weird paranoia issue or something that I hated that that was just terrible

how did your Jesus kids survive that because it sounds like he was born in

exactly that time and well I guess there are two answers or

two things that this story being in here tackles in regard to that. One, Jesus wasn't

just a potential victim of that story.

Jesus is what lit a fire under the king to make him behave like that.

So I don't know if that makes people feel better about it or worse about it,

but it would certainly help them connect the dots.

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