Image: BnF MS Gr510 folio 137 recto - detail - Herod orders the Massacre of the Innocents; the Flight of Elizabeth; the martyrdom of Zachariah
Description: Herod orders the Massacre of the Innocents; the Flight of Elizabeth; the martyrdom of Zachariah in the Paris Gregory, a 9th century Byzantine manuscript. According to the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18), Herod the Great ordered the massacre of all infants in the Kingdom of Judaea. According to the Gospel of James, Zachariah the father of John the Baptist is sought out and killed by soldiers of Herod the Great in the Temple of Jerusalem (23–24), while Elizabeth and the infant prophet John are hidden in the mountains (22:3). Detail from a Greek manuscript dated 879–883 AD and containing the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus, now in the National Library of France. (BnF MS Gr510 folio 440 recto – detail)
Title: BnF MS Gr510 folio 137 recto - detail - Herod orders the Massacre of the Innocents; the Flight of Elizabeth; the martyrdom of Zachariah
Credit: Illustrated painted parchment Greek manuscript (879-883 AD) of the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (BnF MS grec 510) folio 137r. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84522082/f287
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