The coast is something like 36ks from Bethlehem, which is in the...

The coast is something like 36ks from Bethlehem, which is in the vicinity of the town. The verses do not mean that all the children in the nation of that age were slaughtered when vicinity or surroundings is specified, which includes the nearby coast.

Okay, so we don't have a concluded view about how widespread nor the death toll in the "massacre of the innocents" mentioned in Matthew's Gospel and that took place(4 B.C.?) around Herold the Great's time and Jesus' birth. However, the 'innocents" would be a part of the 144,000 "first fruits" mentioned in Revelation 14, 1-5 (and elsewhere) and if, 144,000 is a literal figure as the JWs claim, there is no way that the 144,000 can only be JWs( between... and up to year1935). According to JWs, only 144,000 JWs can enter Heaven and the rest of the "Great Crowd" inherit the Earth or get annihilated. Do you agree or do you have some other view?