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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. The World English Bible translates the passage as: They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold,
Gregory the Great: Rightly is He born in Bethlehem, which signifies the house of bread, who said, am the living bread, who came down from heaven. [ 3 ] Pseudo-Chrysostom : When they should have kept secret the mystery of the King appointed of God, especially before a foreign king, straightway they became not preachers of the word of God, but ...
Matthew 2:4 is the fourth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The magi have informed King Herod that they had seen portents showing the birth of the King of the Jews. In this verse he calls together leading figures of Jerusalem to find out where Jesus was to be born.
Boring notes that where is the first word spoken aloud in the Gospel.Where will also be the first word spoken by Herod in Matthew 2:4.Throughout the early part of the gospel geography will be a central concern of Matthew, covered in far greater detail than in the other gospels.
The verse is a quotation from Jeremiah 31:15.This is the first of three times Matthew quotes Jeremiah, the others being Matthew 16:14 and Matthew 24:9. [1] The verse is similar to the Masoretic, but is not an exact copy implying that it could be a direct translation from the Hebrew.
"The Four Men" describes four characters, Myself, Grizzlebeard, the Poet and the Sailor, each aspects of Belloc's personality, as they journey in a half-real, half-fictional allegory of life. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Subtitled " a Farrago ", meaning a 'confused mixture', [ 3 ] the book contains a range of anecdotes, songs, reflections and miscellany.
Referring to Jesus Christ’s birthplace, which is now in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Most Rev Justin Welby said “the skies of Bethlehem are full of fear rather than angels and glory”.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.