Matthew 2:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem,

Cross References

Micah 5:2

Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are small among the clans of Judah; one will come from you to be ruler over Israel for me. His origin  is from antiquity, from ancient times.

John 7:42

Doesn’t the Scripture  say that the Messiah comes from David’s  offspring  and from the town of Bethlehem,  where David lived? ’

Luke 2:11

Today in the city of David a Saviour  was born for you, who is the Messiah,  the Lord.

Isaiah 11:10

On that day the root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will look to him for guidance, and his resting place will be glorious.

Genesis 49:10

The sceptre will not depart from Judah or the staff from between his feet until he whose right it is comes  , and the obedience of the peoples belongs to him.

Matthew 2:5

‘In Bethlehem of Judea,’ they told him, ‘because this is what was written by the prophet:

Matthew 1:25

but did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son.  And he named him Jesus.

Luke 2:15

When the angels had left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let’s go straight to Bethlehem and see what has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.’

Luke 1:5

In the days of King Herod  of Judea, there was a priest of Abijah’s division  named Zechariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East,  greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

Genesis 25:6

But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, and while he was still alive he sent them eastwards, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.

Matthew 2:19

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

Matthew 2:3

When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

Genesis 10:30

Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.

Job 1:3

His estate included seven thousand sheep and goats, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys,  and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.

Genesis 41:8

When morning came, he was troubled,  so he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men.  Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

Judges 17:7

There was a young man, a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who was staying within the clan of Judah.

Matthew 2:7

Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and asked them the exact time the star had appeared.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he realised that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma fathered Bethlehem, and Hareph fathered Beth-gader.