jerusalem built the palace on top of macada. he built another fortress palace. he is respected as the greatest builder but reviled as a paranoid mad man who killed his wife three of the children and the rabbi of the jewish dynasty. in matthew s gospel when the magi followed their star to jerusalem and asked herod where the king of the jews had been born he commanded soldiers to kill all of the babies in bethlehem. the slaughter of the innocent. would mary and joseph felt o oppre oppressed? is i would have in their position. already it would have been a very intimidating place for
he was a builder. he made things. t it is someone who makes things oh who creates something. it is a miss translation when people thought builders worked with wood. we have stone here. remember we row mant size about joseph in lots of ways. joseph and mary were never married. most don t realize that. didn t they get married later? no. he is never called anything except for herbie troether betr. it is a legal contract. it is not the same as being married but it is a stronger bond than we would call today being engaged. the virgin birth, how would that go over in a first century nazarene town. a lot of jews would say she obviously got raped a roman his
invited to see as not only changing the very meaning of power itself. the whole story of king herod is almost a play on word. every time king herod, but the reader knows who the real king is. the real king is jesus. they bring gospel analysis and archeology nool focus at a place mary and joseph could not avoid on their way to nazareth from bethlehem. herod is concerned about security. it is a palace fortress important politically for places like this. to be not just impressive but intimidateling. this volcano shaped mound is clearly advivisible.
name was pantera. the claim of being born a virgin as unusual it was not unthinkable. a 13 or 14-year-old girl bound to be pregnant and she is not married. this was the high point in joseph s life because he could have exposed her. you are right. she could have been stoned. he protected her. you can have facted, you can have history but at the end of the day you don t want to always separate was virgin birth fact or fiction? at easter sometimes we hear the question, how important, how essential is it that jesus actually rose physically from the dead? would it be woke to say jesus somehow rose in the spiritual way in people s minds and hearts and the physical body is still in the tomb? i would say no in the mist of
the passions and resurrection we have to understand something about the history of t mystery beginning of his life. no objects have been found that are directly linked to jesus. the way archeologists have come to find evidence as herod the great. just before christmas in 2009 a house in the time of jesus was unearthed across the street from the church of annunciation. for a long time we have been trying to find any evidence of jewish life in nazareth. could this have been the home of mary and joseph? it is conceivable that mary and jesus and joseph lived here. it is much more likely they visited and a little boy named jesus was running around all of these houses, but there is nothing jesus lived here. if we find something from the first century it was built by a builder, one of the