A Dramatic Monologue
It's a great time for you to be asking questions now, after all the blood your soldiers spilled and all the pain and misery they brought to nearly every home in Bethlehem! Yes, I understand what you've said - you wouldn't have allowed such widespread killings if you had been King Herod, and not just a captain of his soldiers. You would have asked some questions first, and tried to narrow down the possibilities of which baby it might be that you had to kill. But, of course, if you had come to me then, I would have told you just what I've told you now - the baby in whom you are interested was gone from here 'long before any of your soldiers came, and no matter how many children were murdered, the one you cared about was out of your reach.
Where has he gone? I don't kno…