The Magi
Visit the
Messiah
1After
Jesus was
born in
Bethlehem
in Judea,
during the
time of
King
Herod,
Magi from
the east
came to
Jerusalem
.
2 and
asked,
“Where is
the one
who has
been born
king of
the Jews?
We saw his
star when
it rose
and have
come to
worship
him.”
.
3 When
King Herod
heard this
he was
disturbed,
and all
Jerusalem
with him.
.
4 When
he had
called
together
all the
people’s
chief
priests
and
teachers
of the
law, he
asked them
where the
Messiah
was to be
born
.
5 “In
Bethlehem
in Judea,”
they
replied,
“for this
is what
the
prophet
has
written:
.
6 “‘But
you,
Bethlehem,
in the
land of
Judah,
are
by no
means
least
among the
rulers of
Judah;
for
out of you
will come
a ruler
who
will
shepherd
my people
Israel.
.
7 Then
Herod
called the
Magi
secretly
and found
out from
them the
exact time
the star
had
appeared.
.
8 He
sent them
to
Bethlehem
and said,
“Go and
search
carefully
for the
child. As
soon as
you find
him,
report to
me, so
that I too
may go and
worship
him.”
.
9 After
they had
heard the
king, they
went on
their way,
and the
star they
had seen
when it
rose went
ahead of
them until
it stopped
over the
place
where the
child was.
.
10 When
they saw
the star,
they were
overjoyed.
.
11 On
coming to
the house,
they saw
the child
with his
mother
Mary, and
they bowed
down and
worshiped
him. Then
they
opened
their
treasures
and
presented
him with
gifts of
gold,
frankincense
and myrrh.
.
12 And
having
been
warned in
a dream
not to go
back to
Herod,
they
returned
to their
country by
another
route.
.
The Escape
to Egypt
.
13 When
they had
gone, an
angel of
the Lord
appeared
to Joseph
in a
dream.
“Get up,”
he said,
“take the
child and
his mother
and escape
to Egypt.
Stay there
until I
tell you,
for Herod
is going
to search
for the
child to
kill him.”
.
14 So
he got up,
took the
child and
his mother
during the
night and
left for
Egypt,
.
15 where
he stayed
until the
death of
Herod. And
so was
fulfilled
what the
Lord had
said
through
the
prophet:
“Out of
Egypt I
called my
son.”
.
16 When
Herod
realized
that he
had been
outwitted
by the
Magi, he
was
furious,
and he
gave
orders to
kill all
the boys
in
Bethlehem
and its
vicinity
who were
two years
old and
under, in
accordance
with the
time he
had
learned
from the
Magi.
.
17 Then
what was
said
through
the
prophet
Jeremiah
was
fulfilled:
.
18 “A
voice is
heard in
Ramah,
weeping
and great
mourning,
Rachel
weeping
for her
children
and
refusing
to be
comforted,
because
they are
no more.”
The Return
to
Nazareth
.
19 After
Herod
died, an
angel of
the Lord
appeared
in a dream
to Joseph
in Egypt
.
20 and
said, “Get
up, take
the child
and his
mother and
go to the
land of
Israel,
for those
who were
trying to
take the
child’s
life are
dead.”
.
21 So
he got up,
took the
child and
his mother
and went
to the
land of
Israel.
.
22 But
when he
heard that
Archelaus
was
reigning
in Judea
in place
of his
father
Herod, he
was afraid
to go
there.
Having
been
warned in
a dream,
he
withdrew
to the
district
of
Galilee,
.
23 and
he went
and lived
in a town
called
Nazareth.
So was
fulfilled
what was
said
through
the
prophets,
that he
would be
called a
Nazarene.