The connection of the day

Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

Two verses, written centuries apart, holding the same thread. John 1:1 carries 292,374 of them. The app is built on them.