Matthew 2:8

Good News Translation

Then he sent them to Bethlehem with these instructions: “Go and make a careful search for the child; and when you find him, let me know, so that I too may go and worship him.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:14

Absalom and all the Israelites said, “Hushai's advice is better than Ahithophel's.” The Lord had decided that Ahithophel's good advice would not be followed, so that disaster would come on Absalom.

1 Kings 19:2

She sent a message to Elijah: “May the gods strike me dead if by this time tomorrow I don't do the same thing to you that you did to the prophets.”

Proverbs 21:30

Human wisdom, brilliance, insight—they are of no help if the Lord is against you.

Lamentations 3:37

The will of the Lord alone is always carried out.

Matthew 2:1

Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea, during the time when Herod was king. Soon afterward, some men who studied the stars came from the East to Jerusalem

Matthew 2:7

So Herod called the visitors from the East to a secret meeting and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.

Matthew 2:9

And so they left, and on their way they saw the same star they had seen in the East. When they saw it, how happy they were, what joy was theirs! It went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.