Matthew 2:4

Matthew chapter 2 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.3And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

v.4This passage

v.5And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judæa: for thus it is written through the prophet,

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Malachi 2:7
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.
Nehemiah 12:7
Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
1 Chronicles 24:4
And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses, eight.
Jeremiah 8:8
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.
Luke 23:10
And the chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
Ezra 7:6
this Ezra went up from Babylon. And he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him.