Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem, belonging to Judaea, in the days of king Herod, magicians from the East arrived at Jerusalem,

asking, "Where is the newly-born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him."

so he gathered all the high priests and scribes of the people and made inquiries of them about where the messiah was to be born.

'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"