However, on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced in public to the delight of Herod;

Then Herod summoned the magicians in secret and ascertained from them the time of the star's appearance.

For Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of his brother Philip,

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

The news of this troubled king Herod and all Jerusalem as well;

Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by a different road.

After they had gone, there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt; stay there till I tell you. For Herod is going to search for the child and destroy him."

where he stayed until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what the Lord had said by the prophet: I called my Son from Egypt.

Then Herod saw the magicians had trifled with him, and he was furiously angry; he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the neighbourhood who were two years old or under, calculating by the time he had ascertained from the magicians.

But when Herod died, there appeared an angel of the Lord in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

but on hearing that Archelaus reigned over Judaea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there and, by a divine injunction in a dream, withdrew to the region of Galilee.

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus.