WHAT ABOUT HEROD?

WOULD HE HAVE BEEN OBSERVING A PAGAN CELEBRATION

IN JERUSALEM ?

Herod the Great was the son of Antipater, an Edomite, and his mother was Nabataean.

Although Herod was of Arab origin, on both sides, history records that he was a practicing Jew.

He is known for the temple known as Herod's Temple, the temple in Jerusalem at the time of Christ.

Herod divorced his first wife and married Mariame, a Hasmonean princess.