Matthew 2

¹Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king , behold , wise men from the east came to Jerusalem ,

²saying , Where is he who has been born king of the Jews ? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him .

³When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled , and all Jerusalem with him ;

⁴and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people , he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born .

⁵They told him , In Bethlehem of Judea , for so it is written by the prophet :

⁶And you , O Bethlehem , in the land of Judah , are by no means least among the rulers of Judah ; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel .

⁷Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared .

⁸And he sent them to Bethlehem , saying , Go and search diligently for the child , and when you have found him, bring me word , that I too may come and worship him .

⁹After listening to the king , they went on their way. And behold , the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was .

¹⁰When they saw the star , they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy .

¹¹And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother , and they fell down and worshiped him . Then , opening their treasures , they offered him gifts , gold and frankincense and myrrh .

¹²And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod , they departed to their own country by another way .

¹³Now when they had departed , behold , an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said , Rise , take the child and his mother , and flee to Egypt , and remain there until I tell you , for Herod is about to search for the child , to destroy him .

¹⁴And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt

¹⁵and remained there until the death of Herod . This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet , Out of Egypt I called my son .

¹⁶Then Herod , when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men , became furious , and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under , according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men .

¹⁷Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah :

¹⁸A voice was heard in Ramah , weeping and loud lamentation , Rachel weeping for her children ; she refused to be comforted , because they are no more .

¹⁹But when Herod died , behold , an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt ,

²⁰saying , Rise , take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel , for those who sought the child’s life are dead .

²¹And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel .

²²But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod , he was afraid to go there , and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee .

²³And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth , so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled , that he would be called a Nazarene .