Matthew 2:3-5

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³ When King Herod heard this, he was ·troubled [very disturbed; frightened], as were all the people in Jerusalem. ⁴ Herod ·called a meeting of [assembled] all the ·leading [^Tchief] priests and ·teachers of the law [scribes] and ·asked [inquired of] them where the ·Christ [Messiah] would be born. ⁵ They answered, “In the town of Bethlehem in Judea. ·The prophet wrote about this in the Scriptures [^LFor so it has been written by the prophet]: