Day 276 (Matthew 2) - Year 8
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Day 276 (Matthew 2) - Year 8

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 3, 20267 min
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Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Yesterday we read Luke's account of the birth of Jesus and today we get more information from Matthew's account. Jesus is born in a village called Bethlehem in a kingdom called Judea.

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At the time he's born, all of Judea is under Roman rule and occupation. Imagine a large and powerful country takes over the country where you live, stationed soldiers in every major city, is involved with every level of your government, and makes you pay taxes to support that occupying army. That's what's happening here. Rome is in charge

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of things, and they put again Herod the Great in charge of Judea. Herod is a great builder, making port cities and aqueducts and even renovating the Second Temple complex so that it's much bigger and more magnificent. For a while, he's even the president of the Olympics, but in his later years, he becomes jealous and paranoid. For instance, he spends six years

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