6. ‘Bethlehem in the land of Judah,you are by no means the least of the leading cities of Judah;for from you will come a leaderwho will guide my people Israel.’ ”
7. So Herod called the visitors from the east to a secret meeting and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.
8. Then he sent them to Bethlehem with these instructions: “Go and make a careful search for the child, and when you find him, let me know, so that I too may go and worship him.”
9-10. And so they left, and on their way they saw the same star they had seen in the east. When they saw it, how happy they were, what joy was theirs! It went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.
11. They went into the house, and when they saw the child with his mother Mary, they knelt down and worshipped him. They brought out their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and presented them to him.