GO ANOTHER WAY SCRIPTURE: MATTHEW 2:1-12; EPHESIANS 4:12
IN OUR TEXT WE ENCOUNTER THE WISE MEN FROM THE EAST, MAGI OR AS MSG SAYS SCHOLARS WHO COME LOOKING FOR JESUS. THEY ASK WHERE IS THE ONE WHO IS BORN KING OF THE JEWS. THE TESTIFY OF HAVING SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST AND CAME SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES TO WORSHIP HIM. WHEN HEROD HEARS THIS THE TEXT SAYS THAT HE AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE ARE TROUBLED. NIV SAYS DISTURBED NLV SAYS WORRIED AND THE MSG SAYS TERRIFIED. HEROD CALLED ALL OF THE CHIEF PRIEST AND TEACHERS OF THE LAW TOGETHER AND ASKED THEM WHERE IS THE MESSIAH OR CHRIST TO BE BORN.THEY TOLD HIM BETHLEHEM OF JUDAEA. THEN QUOTE MICAH SHOWING THAT THAT ALREADY KNEW WHERE HE WAS TO BE BORN ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD.
AFTER SHARING WITH THE WISE MEN WHERE THE WORD SAYS THEY COULD FIND HIM, SECRETLY HE MEETS WITH THEM AND FINDS OUT FROM THEM WHEN THEY FIRST SAW THE STAR AND THEN HE SENT THEM TO DILIGENTLY SEARCH FOR THE YOUNG CHILD, SUCH THAT WHEN THEY FOUND HIM, TO COME BACK AND LET HIM KNOW SO THAT HE TOO COULD WORSHIP HIM.