There is the moral conflict of an unmarried teenage girl getting pregnant. There is the religious conflict as pagan astronomers find the baby through the forbidden practice of stellar divination. There is the cultural conflict as physically unclean shepherds who couldn’t testify in a trial and spiritually unclean Gentiles are the first to acknowledge the newborn king. There is the political conflict as a maniacal self-made King, a puppet for an occupying Roman super power, orders the slaughter of innocent children to eliminate any competition for his title, “King of the Jews.”
