I read this morning from Matthew 2, the Christmas story, and of Herod ordering that all boys in Bethlehem under the age of 2 be killed. And I wondered: did Jesus ever encounter a mother or father whose boy was killed? Wouldn’t that have been an interesting encounter? Like, “Hi, Jesus. I would have had a son your age…if you hadn’t come along.”
I did a Bible search, and it doesn’t appear that Jesus ever went to Bethlehem. At least, it’s not mentioned in the Gospels. Oh well. Doesn’t mean such an encounter couldn’t have occurred.
