Who Will Lead the Nations to Peace? Will There Ever Be a World Without War? Also, he was born in Bethlehem, which was commonly understood among first-century Jews to be the designated birthplace for the Messiah.c (Micah 5:1 [5:2, NW] Who Will Lead the Nations to Peace? Will There Ever Be a World Without War? c The ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase, or Targum, of Micah 5:1 states: “From thee [Bethlehem] Messiah shall go out before me.”
Also, he was born in Bethlehem, which was commonly understood among first-century Jews to be the designated birthplace for the Messiah.c (Micah 5:1 [5:2, NW]
c The ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase, or Targum, of Micah 5:1 states: “From thee [Bethlehem] Messiah shall go out before me.”