Where can I find info on your reference to Zacharias being killed because he would tell the where out of Elizabeth and John?
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Bryce mentioned it in the podcast, apparently. Sorry for the late reply. The Gospel of James, a 2nd-century apocryphal work, recounts that, at the time of the massacre of the Innocents, when King Herod ordered the slaughter of all males under the age of two in an attempt to prevent the prophesied Messiah from coming to Israel, Zechariah refused to divulge the whereabouts of his son (who was in hiding), and he was therefore murdered by Herod’s soldiers. See: The Protoevanglion of James, chapter 16.
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Where can I find info on your reference to Zacharias being killed because he would tell the where out of Elizabeth and John?
Thanks
Bryce mentioned it in the podcast, apparently. Sorry for the late reply. The Gospel of James, a 2nd-century apocryphal work, recounts that, at the time of the massacre of the Innocents, when King Herod ordered the slaughter of all males under the age of two in an attempt to prevent the prophesied Messiah from coming to Israel, Zechariah refused to divulge the whereabouts of his son (who was in hiding), and he was therefore murdered by Herod’s soldiers. See: The Protoevanglion of James, chapter 16.