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Matthew 2:4

World English Bible

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

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Matthew 2:4 in other translations

And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.

Matthew 2:4 · American Standard Version

Matthew 2:4 in context

  1. 2“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
  2. 3When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
  3. 4Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.
  4. 5They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,
  5. 6‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah,
    are in no way least among the princes of Judah:
    for out of you shall come a governor,
    who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”