For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Everybody, it seems, is out to get Jesus. This time it’s the Herodians and disciples of the Pharisees who conspire to trap him. Their ...

16 They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. And you are not ...

As we approach Christmas, we think of the Heroes and the Herodians. The Heroes were the women, like Elizabeth and Mary, who bore children and all who looked to the coming of Jesus. The Herodians ...