Bible Mysteries Herod and the Bethlehem Massacre english documentary on BBC Part 1

The Massacre of the Innocents is the biblical narrative of infanticide by Herod the Great, the Roman appointed King of the Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew[1] Herod ordered the execution of all young male children in the “Vicinity of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the Jews whose birth had been announced to him by the Magi.