Matthew:2

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* Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem , in the country of Judea . Herod was the king . After Jesus was born , wise men came from the east to Jerusalem . * They asked , Where is the child who has been born to be King of the Jews ? We saw his star rising and we have come to worship him . * When King Herod heard this , he was very troubled . All the people in Jerusalem were troubled also . * He called all the chief priests and the scribes of the Jews for a meeting . He asked them , Where is the Christ to be born ? * They told him , In Bethlehem in Judea . That is what the prophet , the man of God long ago , wrote : * "Bethlehem in the country of Judah , you are not the least among the leaders in Judah . A leader will come from you who will rule over my people Israel ." * Then Herod called the wise men to talk with them secretly . He found out from them what time they saw the star . * He sent them to Bethlehem . He said , Go and ask everywhere until you find the child . When you have found him , come and tell me , so that I myself may go and worship him . * After they heard what the king said , they went away . And the star , which they had seen rising , went in front of them . It stopped above the place where the child was . * When they saw the star , they were very glad . * They went into the house , and there they saw the child and Mary his mother . They kneeled down and worshipped him . Then they opened their bags and gave him gifts . These gifts were gold , and frankincense and myrrh . * In a dream they were told not to go back to Herod . So they went home by a different road . * After the wise men had gone , Joseph had a dream . An angel of the Lord came to him and said , Get up . Take the child and his mother , and go quickly to the country of Egypt . Stay there till I tell you , because Herod will try to find the child and kill him . * Joseph woke up . He took the child and his mother in the night and went to Egypt . * He stayed there until Herod died . What the Lord told through his prophet long ago , came true . He said I called my son out of Egypt . * Herod saw that the wise men had fooled him . He was very angry . He sent men to kill all the baby boys in the town of Bethlehem and around it . They killed all the boys who were two years old or less . Herod remembered what the wise men had told him about the time they first saw the star . * So what the prophet Jeremiah said , came true . * He said , A voice could be heard in the town of Ramah . Rachel was crying for her children . She would not let anyone comfort her because her children were dead . * Herod died . Then Joseph had a dream . An angel of the Lord came to him in Egypt . * The angel said , Get up . Take the child and his mother and go to the country of Israel . The men who wanted to kill the child are dead . * Joseph woke up . He took the child and his mother and went to the country of Israel . * But he heard that Archelaus was king of Judea in his father Herods place . So he was afraid to go there . In a dream he was told what to do . He went to the country of Galilee . * He went and made his home in the town of Nazareth . The prophets of God long ago had said , He shall be called a man from Nazareth . What they said came true .

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