Matthew 2

Thomson^{(i) 1} After the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold there came magians from the east2 to Jerusalem, ² saying, Where is he who is born to be king of the Jews? For we have seen his star at its rise, and are come to pay him homage. ³ Upon hearing this, Herod the king was alarmed and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴ And having assembled all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them, where the Christ should be born. ⁵ And they told him. At Bethlehem of Judea. For thus it is written by the prophet, ⁶ "And thou Bethlehem in the land of Judea art by no means the least among the leaders of Juda; for out of thee shall come a leader, who shall tend my people Israel" ⁷ Then Herod, having privately called the magians, got exact information from them concerning the time of the star's appearing; ⁸ and sending them to Bethlehem, he said, Go and make exact inquiry about the child. And when you have found him bring me word, that I also may go and pay him homage. ⁹ So in obedience to the king they departed; and lo! the star which they had seen at his rise moved on before them, till it came and stood over the place where the child was. ¹⁰ When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly: ¹¹ and having entered the house they found the child with Mary his mother. Whereupon, prostrating themselves, they did him homage. Then opening their treasures they presented him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. ¹² And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went to their own country by another way. ¹³ And when they were gone, behold an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there till I order thee; for Herod will seek the child to destroy him. ¹⁴ Accordingly he arose and took the child and his mother by night and went to Egypt, ¹⁵ where he continued till the death of Herod, so that there was a fulfilment of what the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son." ¹⁶ When Herod saw that he was treated with contempt by the magians, he was highly incensed, and he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and all the territory belonging thereto, from those who had entered the second year and under, according to the time, of which he had. got exact information from the magians. ¹⁷ Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying, ¹⁸ "A cry was heard at Rama; lamentation and weeping and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted, because they are no more." ¹⁹ Now when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, ²⁰ saying, "Arise and take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for they who sought the child's life, are dead." ²¹ Accordingly he arose and took the child and his mother and came to the land of Israel: ²² but hearing that Archelaus reigned over Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither. And being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, ²³ and went and dwelt in a city called Nazareth; so that what was spoken by the prophets was fulfilled: that he should be called a Nazarene.