But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,

For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,

And Jesus having been born in Beth-Lehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, lo, mages from the east came to Jerusalem,

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

Then Herod, privately having called the mages, did inquire exactly from them the time of the appearing star,

and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region.

And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, 'Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.'

and he was there till the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, 'Out of Egypt I did call My Son.'

Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

And Herod having died, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream doth appear to Joseph in Egypt,

and having heard that Archelaus doth reign over Judea instead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither, and having been divinely warned in a dream, he withdrew to the parts of Galilee,

At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus,