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When someone in your family has a baby, are you excited to pack up the car and go see the newborn? When your neighbor has a baby, are you equally excited? When someone you’ve never met, living in another country, has a baby, do you even consider going to see the child?
Matthew 2:1-12
- Wise men came to Jerusalem looking for Jesus (v. 1).
- They believed that the child they sought was to be King of the Jews, and they came to worship him (v. 2).
- Herod, the political king, was troubled by this visit (v. 3).
- The priests and scribes of Jerusalem were consulted on the matter (v. 4).
- Micah 5:2 was advanced as evidence that the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem (v. 5-6).
- Herod sent the wise me off to Bethlehem to find the child, asking them to return and report to the king what they learned (v. 9-10).
- The wise men found THE YOUNG CHILD in THE HOUSE (v. 11).
- But, being warned by God about Herod’s plot, they returned home without seeing the king first (v. 12).
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Matthew 2:1-12
1Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
2Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
3When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
4And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
5And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
6And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
7Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
8And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
9When 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.
10When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
11And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
12And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Micah 5:2
2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.