Bethlehem Grief

The Magi and the Flight · Matthew 2

Story guide: An interpretive illustration of “Bethlehem Grief” accompanies Matthew 2:16-18, connecting this scene with the passage below.

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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.

17Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying:

18A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning: Rachel weeping for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.

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