Then Herod investigated the Magi, and when he learned that they had returned to their homeland, he became greatly enraged.\u00a0He immediately dispatched (orders) to kill all the children and infants of Bethlehem and throughout all the villages in its vicinity.\u00a0But when they passed among all the corpses, they did not find John, the son of Zechariah.\u00a0<He> thought: \u2018It is surely the son of Zechariah who will become king of Israel,\u2019 because he had heard of the incident of Zechariah being addressed by an angel.\u00a0Now convinced about John, he sent word to Zechariah and said to him that they should bring John to him.\u00a0Zechariah replied: \u2018I am a priest and have been serving in the Temple of the Lord!\u00a0I do not know where the boy and his mother are.\u2019\u00a0 On account of this he was killed between the vestibule (?) and the altar.\u00a0Then Elizabeth took John and fled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Translation of the critical edition of the \u2018oriental recension\u2019 published by Su-Min Ri, La caverne des tr\u00e9sors: Les deux recensions syriaques (CSCO 486, scrip. syri t. 207; Louvain: E. Peeters, 1987), 388-90. Then Herod investigated the Magi, and when he learned that they had returned to their homeland, he became greatly enraged.\u00a0He immediately dispatched (orders) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"parent":430,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3kl1F-i6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions\/1124"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}