Graphic Bible · Scene 16 of 23
Matthew 2:16
Herod’s Rage and Bethlehem’s Loss
The Magi and the Flight · Matthew 2
Story guide: The sequence separates Herod’s rage, the dispatch of his men, and adult grief afterward. The empty blanket conveys loss without graphic injury.
Open this scene in the reader →16Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the magi, became very angry, and sending men, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its surrounding districts, from two years old and under, according to the exact time he had determined from the magi.
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