Mat 2:4-6 | ESV | STEP | and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people , he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born .

c Ezek. 34:23; John 21:15-17; [2 Sam. 5:2; Rev. 7:17]

Matthew 2:4-6

4 and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where ^athe Christ was to be born. 5 They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:

6 ^b“‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who will ^cshepherd my people Israel.’”