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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Matthew 2 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Matthew 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/1.htm" title="Matthew 1">◄</a> Matthew 2 <a href="../matthew/3.htm" title="Matthew 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Visitors from the East</h3><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_1"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.1" class="v40_2_1">1</span>Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea, during the time when Herod was king. Soon afterward, some men who studied the stars came from the East to Jerusalem </span><span class="v40_2_2"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.2" class="v40_2_2">2</span>and asked, “Where is the baby born to be the king of the Jews? We saw his star when it came up in the east, and we have come to worship him.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.3" class="v40_2_3">3</span>When King Herod heard about this, he was very upset, and so was everyone else in Jerusalem. </span><span class="v40_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.4" class="v40_2_4">4</span>He called together all the chief priests and the teachers of the Law and asked them, “Where will the Messiah be born?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_5"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.5" class="v40_2_5">5</span>“In the town of Bethlehem in Judea,” they answered. “For this is what the prophet wrote:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_2_6"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.6" class="v40_2_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.2.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> ‘Bethlehem in the land of Judah,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_2_6">you are by no means the least of the leading cities of Judah;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_2_6">for from you will come a leader</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_2_6">who will guide my people Israel.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.7" class="v40_2_7">7</span>So Herod called the visitors from the East to a secret meeting and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. </span><span class="v40_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.8" class="v40_2_8">8</span>Then he sent them to Bethlehem with these instructions: “Go and make a careful search for the child; and when you find him, let me know, so that I too may go and worship him.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.9-Matt.2.10" class="v40_2_9">9-10</span>And so they left, and on their way they saw the same star they had seen in the East. When they saw it, how happy they were, what joy was theirs! It went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. </span><span class="v40_2_11"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.11" class="v40_2_11">11</span>They went into the house, and when they saw the child with his mother Mary, they knelt down and worshiped him. They brought out their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and presented them to him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_12"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.12" class="v40_2_12">12</span>Then they returned to their country by another road, since God had warned them in a dream not to go back to Herod.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Escape to Egypt</h3><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_13"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.13" class="v40_2_13">13</span>After they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, “Herod will be looking for the child in order to kill him. So get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_14"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.14" class="v40_2_14">14</span>Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and left during the night for Egypt, </span><span class="v40_2_15"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.15" class="v40_2_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.2.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> where he stayed until Herod died. This was done to make come true what the Lord had said through the prophet, “I called my Son out of Egypt.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Killing of the Children</h3><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_16"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.16" class="v40_2_16">16</span>When Herod realized that the visitors from the East had tricked him, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its neighborhood who were two years old and younger—this was done in accordance with what he had learned from the visitors about the time when the star had appeared.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_17"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.17" class="v40_2_17">17</span>In this way what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_2_18"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.18" class="v40_2_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.2.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “A sound is heard in Ramah,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_2_18">the sound of bitter weeping.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_2_18">Rachel is crying for her children;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_2_18">she refuses to be comforted,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_2_18">for they are dead.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Return from Egypt</h3><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_19"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.19" class="v40_2_19">19</span>After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt </span><span class="v40_2_20"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.20" class="v40_2_20">20</span>and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go back to the land of Israel, because those who tried to kill the child are dead.” </span><span class="v40_2_21"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.21" class="v40_2_21">21</span>So Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went back to Israel.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_2_22"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.22" class="v40_2_22">22</span>But when Joseph heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Judea, he was afraid to go there. He was given more instructions in a dream, so he went to the province of Galilee </span><span class="v40_2_23"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.2.23" class="v40_2_23">23</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.2.23!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and made his home in a town named Nazareth. And so what the prophets had said came true: “He will be called a Nazarene.”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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