leads to hurting people. If people will be ungodly, they will be inhumane. Herod is the gospel’s earliest evidence of this fact” (Bruner, p. 53). Someone has to carry out Herod’s murderous orders: his soldiers. They stand as those who, although perhaps not instrumental in conceiving evil, are essential for its actualization. Their “only following orders” behavior is deadly and serves as an implicit call to examine where we collude with evil by not intentionally standing against it. From what evil