Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Judea in the days of King Herod, stargazers came from the East to Jerusalem

Now when King Herod heard of it, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

Then Jerusalem and all Judea, even the whole Jordan district, continued to go out to him

So great crowds followed Him, from Galilee and Decapolis, from Jerusalem and Judea, and from the other side of Jordan.

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

Then some Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, and asked Him,

It was just after that that Jesus Christ for the first time clearly taught His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem and submit to many forms of suffering at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, but be raised to life on the third day.

And as Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside, and said to them while on the road,

"Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be turned over to the high priests and the scribes, and they will sentence Him to death,

When they were near Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples on ahead,

When He came into Jerusalem, the whole city was trembling with excitement, and asking, "Who is He?"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!