Matthew 2:4-6

Living Bible

⁴ He called a meeting of the Jewish religious leaders.

“Did the prophets tell us where the Messiah would be born?” he asked.

⁵ “Yes, in Bethlehem,” they said, “for this is what the prophet Micah^[a] wrote:

⁶ ‘O little town of Bethlehem, you are not just an unimportant Judean village, for a Governor shall rise from you to rule my people Israel.’”