Sermon looking at two men known as "King of the Jews" — Herod the Great and Jesus Christ

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e J ews
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2. Herod the Great
• Idumean, not Hebrew
• Family “converted” to Judaism during
Maccabean period
• Named tetrarch of Galilee in 42 B.C.
• Named “King of the Jews” by the
Roman senate in 39 B.C. — ruled for
37 years
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3. What’s so great
about Herod?
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4. The Herodium
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5. O little town…
Bethlehem probably had fewer
than 300 inhabitants
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6. O little town…
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7. Matthew 2:1-12
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8. Where is
the one who
has been born
king of the Jews?
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10. Matthew 2:13-18
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13. “…at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth
and under the earth,
and every tongue
confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord…
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14. King of
the Jews
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15. King of
all creation!
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