“Clearly made up”/“invented” you have provided no proof of this.  Truth or Fiction: Did Herod Really Slaughter Baby Boys in Bethlehem? | Desiring God.              (‘absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Historically the massacre doesn’t amount to much - village of about 1,500 residents, Bethlehem: about two dozen babies two years old and under — half of them female - in a time of high infant mortality.’) https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/truth-or-fiction-did-herod-really-slaughter-baby-boys-in-bethlehem Is there secular evidence Herod killed babies under the age of two? | NeverThirsty [non-Christian writer Macrobius (A.D. 395-423).  ‘On hearing that the son of Herod, king of the Jews, had been slain when Herod ordered that all boys in Syria under the age of two to be killed, Augustus said, “It’s better to be Herod’s pig, than his son”’(dicta 56 Malc.] https://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/qa-archives/question/is-there-secular-evidence-herod-killed-babies-under-the-age-of-two/ Why isn't there other evidence of the massacre of the babies? | CARM.org ["not surprising that he [Josephus] and other secular historians overlooked the death of a few Hebrew children in an insignificant village, for Herod’s infamous crimes were many.  He put to death several of his own children and some of his wives whom he thought were plotting against him." -  more "important" things happening in the Roman Empire which would occupy the details of historical writers.] https://carm.org/why-isnt-there-other-evidence-massacre-babies Protoevangelium of James of c.  AD 150,                                                                  ‘And when Herod knew that he had been mocked by the Magi, in a rage he sent murderers, saying to them: Slay the children from two years old and under. And Mary, having heard that the children were being killed, was afraid, and took the infant and swaddled Him, and put Him into an ox-stall. And Elizabeth, having heard that they were searching for John, took him and went up into the hill-country.’ First non-Christian reference to the massacre recorded four by Macrobius, (A.D. 395-423) who writes in his Saturnalia:                                                                  “When he [emperor Augustus] heard that among the boys in Syria under two years old whom Herod, king of the Jews, had ordered killed, his own son was also killed, he said: it is better to be Herod's pig, than his son.”                                     The above translated from original source:                                                             Cum audisset inter pueros quos in Syria Herodes rex Iudaeorum intra bimatum iussit interfici filium quoque eius occisum, ait: Melius est Herodis porcum esse quam filium. (Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Saturnalia, book II, chapter IV:11).     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innocents