And when[a] King Herod heard it,[b] he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him, and after[c] calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where the Christ was to be born. So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:3 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 2:3 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Matthew 2:4 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“calling together”) which is understood as temporal