Matthew 2:4
Good News Translation
He called together all the chief priests and the teachers of the Law and asked them, "Where will the Messiah be born?"

New Revised Standard Version
and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.

Contemporary English Version
Herod brought together the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses and asked them, "Where will the Messiah be born?"

New American Bible
Assembling all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the chief.

Matthew 21:15,23 And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying: Hosanna to the son of David, were moved with indignation, . . .

Matthew 26:3,47 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: . . .

Matthew 27:1 And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

1 Chronicles 24:4-19 And there were found many more of the sons of Eleazar among the principal men, than of the sons of Ithamar. And he divided them so, that there were of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen chief men by their families: and of the sons of Ithamar eight by their families and houses. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:5 So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word, and they swore.

Nehemiah 12:7 Idaia. These were the chief of the priests, and of their brethren in the days of Josue.

Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

John 7:32 The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.

John 18:3 Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.

scribes.

Matthew 7:29 For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees.

Matthew 13:52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

2 Chronicles 34:13,15 But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were scribes, and masters of the number of the Levites, and porters. . . .

Ezra 7:6,11,12 This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him. . . .

Jeremiah 8:8 How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pens of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.

Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests and the scribes: and be killed and after three days rise again.

Luke 20:19 And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him the same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke this parable to them.

Luke 23:10 And the chief priests and the scribes stood by, earnestly accusing him.

John 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery: and they set her in the midst,

Acts 4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

Acts 6:12 And they stirred up the people and the ancients and the scribes. And running together, they took him and brought him to the council.

Acts 23:9 And there arose a great cry. And some of the Pharisees rising up, strove, saying: We find no evil in this man. What if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel?

he demanded.

Malachi 2:7 For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

John 3:10 Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?

Context
The Pilgrimage of the Magi
3And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born. 5But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written by the prophet:…
Cross References
Matthew 2:3
And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Matthew 2:5
But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written by the prophet:

Matthew 2:3
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