How so?
Herod was a psychopath, a narcissist, and had major inferiority complex issues but an insatiable drive for power and prestige. Contributed to his murderous raging temper.
Read a book about him sometime, and about what he inflicted on his wife Mariamne and sons.
You are referring to Herod the Great. The Herod Christ appeared before was his son Herod Antipas. That the one depicted in Jesus Christ Superstar. Of course Antipas was a evil guy too.