The festivities of Herod's birthday being celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.

For Herod, having seized John, bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias, his brother Philip's wife:

And Jesus born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold the magi from the sunrisings arrived in Jerusalem, saying:

And Herod the king having heard, was stirred up, and all Jerusalem with him.

Then Herod having secretly called for the magi, searched thoroughly from them the time of the star appearing.

And having received intimation of the divine will in a dream not to turn back to Herod, by another way they went back to their own country.

And they, having gone back, lo, the messenger of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Having risen, take to thyself the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt, and be there till I speak to thee; for Herod is about to seek the young child to destroy him.

And was there till the death of Herod: that it might be completed having been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

Then Herod, seeing he was deluded by the magi, was very angry, and having sent, destroyed all the children which in Bethlehem, and in all its bounds, from two years and under, according to the time he examined thoroughly of the magi.

And Herod having died, behold a messenger of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

And having heard that Archelaus reigned over Judea, instead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go there; and having received intimation of the divine will in a dream, he turned back into the parts of Galilee.

In that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report of Jesus,