The Birth of the King of the Jews

The geography helps us understand the psychology, the background of these two very different kings of the jews. And so it's comparing and contrasting throughout this narrative. It assumes that some of these things thatferfor us as 20 first century readers were were missing because, of course, we weren't living then. I still get chills thinking about this when i was a student, and you would climb up on the back side of the mount of olives to look at herodium from jerusalem. You could even perhaps see his glittering tomb elevated in the distance from jer Jerusalem.