JMNT(i)
2 They kept on saying, "Where is He being the one born 'King of the Judeans'? You see, we saw His star (or: luminous heavenly body; meteor; flame of light)
in [
its]
rising (or: within the East, the place of rising; or: we, [being] in the east, saw His star),
and we come (or: came)
to do obeisance (or: to kiss toward, fall down and give reverence, worship and pay homage)
to Him."
3 Now, upon hearing [
of it]
, King Herod was shaken (disturbed; unsettled; agitated; irritated with anxiety; stirred up)
– as well as all Jerusalem along with him!
4 Then on gathering together all the chief (or: ranking)
priests and scribes (theologians; experts in the Law and Torah)
of the People [= those of the Jewish culture and religion],
he, one after another, repeatedly investigated from them, ascertaining beside them where the Christ (the Anointed One; = the Messiah)
is traditionally being born.