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Matthew

2:1

Matthew 2 📜 📕 ↷

Pilgrimage of the Magi

1 WHEN JESUS therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda in the days of Herod the king, behold there came Sages from the East to Jerusalem,📜💬📚

2 Saying, where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and are come to adore him.📜💬📚

3 And Herod the king Hearing this, was troubled, & all Jerusalem with him.📜💬📚

4 And assembling together all the high Priests and the Scribes of the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born.📜💬📚

5 But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written by the Prophet:📜💬📚

6 And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda, art not the least among the Princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come forth the Captain that shall rule my people Israel.📜💬📚

7 Then Herod secretly calling the Sages, learned diligently of them the time of the star which appeared to them;📜💬📚

8 and sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go, & inquire diligently of the child; and when you shall find him, make report to me, that I also may come and adore him.📜💬📚

9 Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star which they had seen in the East, went before them, until it came and stood over, where the child was.📜💬📚

10 And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.📜💬📚

11 And entering into the house, they found the child with MARY his mother, & falling down adored him; and opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.📜💬📚

12 And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return to Herod, they went back an other way into their country.📜💬📚

Flight to Egypt

13 And after they were departed, Behold an Angel of our Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, & take the child and his mother, and fly into AEgypt; and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him.📜💬📚

14 Who arose, & took the child and his mother by night, and retired into AEgypt: and he was there until the death of Herod:📜💬📚

15 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of our Lord by the Prophet, saying: Out of AEgypt have I called my Son.📜💬📚

Weeping and Great Mourning

16 Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the Sages, was exceeding angry; and sending, murdered all the men children that were in Bethlehem, & in all the borders thereof, from two year old and under, according to the time which he had diligently sought out of the Sages.📜💬📚

17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the Prophet saying:📜💬📚

18 A voice in Rama was heard, crying out & much wailing: Rachel bewailing her children, & would not be comforted, because they are not.📜💬📚

Return to Nazareth

19 But when Herod was dead, behold an Angel of our Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in AEgypt.📜💬📚

20 saying: Arise, and take the child & his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child.📜💬📚

21 Who arose, & took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.📜💬📚

22 But hearing that Archelaus reigned in Jewry for Herod his father, he feared to go thither: and being warned in sleep retired into the quarters of Galilee.📜💬📚