Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem,

When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan went out to him,

Great crowds followed himfrom Galilee, and from the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.

or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.

Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus and said,

From that time Jesus began to show to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the third day.

Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn him to death,

Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

And when he entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, "Who is this?"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!