Matthew 2:4 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 2:4

And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.

KJV

And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.

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Commentary

6 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Chapter 2, Verses 2 and following) For we have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him. When King Herod heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. To confound the Jews and make them understand the birth of Christ from the Gentiles, a star rises in the East, which the successors of Balaam, through prophecy, had known. Read the book of Numbers (Chapter XXIV).

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 10 (604)

Moreover, to add to the measure of their damnation, Him whom they despise now that He is born, they knew long beforehand would be born. And they knew not only that He would be born, but also where He would be born.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The chief priests - Not only the high priest for the time being, called כהן הראש cohen ha-rosh, 2Ki 25:18, and his deputy, called כהן משנה cohen mishneh, with those who had formerly borne the high priest’s office; but also, the chiefs or heads of the twenty four sacerdotal families, which David distributed into so many courses, 1 Chronicles 24. These latter are styled סרי הכהנים sarey ha-cohanim, chief of the priests, 2Ch 36:14; Ezr 8:24; and ראשי הכהנים roshey ha-cohanim, heads of the priests, Neh 12:

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

Modern Voices1 voice

G.K. Chesterton

1874–1936

The Everlasting Man, Part II Ch. 1 "The God in the Cave" (1925)

That truth that is tradition has wisely remembered them almost as unknown quantities, as mysterious as their mysterious and melodious names: Melchior, Caspar, Balthazar.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
συναγαγὼν	sunagagōn	having gathered together	G4863 →
πάντας	pantas	all	G3956 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
ἀρχιερεῖς	archiereis	chief priests	G749 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
γραμματεῖς	grammateis	scribes	G1122 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
λαοῦ	laou	people	G2992 →
ἐπυνθάνετο	epunthaneto	he was inquiring	G4441 →
παρ᾽	par᾽	of	G3844 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	them	G846 →
ποῦ	pou	where	G4226 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
χριστὸς	christos	Christ	G5547 →
γεννᾶται.	gennatai	is born.	G1080 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 7:29
because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
leads to
- Hebrews 4:12–13
  For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Through
Acts 6:12
So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,
leads to
- Proverbs 15:18
  A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
- Acts 14:2
  But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Through
Matthew 21:23
When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And…
leads to
- Acts 4:7
  They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
- Mark 11:27–33
  After their return to Jerusalem, Jesus was walking in the temple courts, and the chief priests, scribes, and elders came up to Him.
Through
Acts 23:9
A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken…
leads to
- Acts 22:7
  I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’
- Acts 22:17–18
  Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance
- John 12:29
  The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.