How to use in-sentence of “herod”:
– Salome’s dance for King Herod is referred to in the New Testament.
– Between 41 and 44, Judea won a little more independence again, when Herod Agrippa was made king by emperor Claudius.
– Those who ruled after Herod used coins showing that they dated their rules as beginning in 4 BC.
– Acts of the Apostles 12:1–2 records that King Herod had James executed by sword.
– One of these was Herod Archelaus, who ruled Judea so badly that he was made to quit in 6 AD by the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, after his own people complained about him.
– According to Josephus, Herod died shortly after a lunar eclipse.
– Two ideas are central to it: first, that St James preached the gospel in Spain as well as in the Holy Land; second, that after his martyrdom at the hands of Herod Agrippa I his disciples carried his body by sea to Spain, where they landed at Padrón on the coast of Galicia, and took it inland for burial at Santiago de Compostela.
– Matthew wrote that Jesus was born when Herod was king.
