Matthew 2:7-8

2:7 Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared. 2:8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”

Matthew 2:16

2:16 When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.


sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1.

tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1. Note the fulfillment of the prophecy given by the angel in 2:13.

tn Or “soldiers.”

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