Speaker: Grant Agler

 

 
 
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked,
Matthew 2:1-2
 
“Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”
Matthew 2:1-2
 
When King Herod heard this he was disturbed and all Jerusalem with him
Matthew 2:3
 
When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born.
Matthew 2:4
 
“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
Matthew 2:5
 
“‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
   are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
   who will shepherd my people Israel.’
Matthew 2:6
 
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.
Matthew 2:7
 
He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”
Matthew 2:8
 
After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.
Matthew 2:9
 
When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.
Matthew 2:10-11
 
And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
Matthew 2:12
 
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
Matthew 2:13
 
So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
Matthew 2:14
 
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious,
Matthew 2:16
 
and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.
Matthew 2:16
 
After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said,
Matthew 2:19
 
“Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”
Matthew 2:20
 
80 Year Later
 
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, John 1:4-5
 
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness,
John 1:4-5
 
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:4-5