Ruth 1:19

Naomi and Ruth Return

19So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, athe whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?”

1 Samuel 16:4

4Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city bcame to meet him trembling and said, c“Do you come peaceably?”

Matthew 2:3

3When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;

John 12:16-19

16 dHis disciples did not understand these things at first, but ewhen Jesus was glorified, then fthey remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. 17 gThe crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 18The reason why the crowd went to meet him hwas that they heard he had done this sign. 19So the Pharisees said to one another, i“You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, jthe world has gone after him.”

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