Matthew 2:3
When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
KJV
ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἡρῴδης ἐταράχθη καὶ πᾶσα Ἱεροσόλυμα μετ’ αὐτοῦ,
Greek NT
Audiens autem Herodes rex, turbatus est, et omnis Jerosolyma cum illo.
Vulgate
And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
ASV
And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Douay-Rheims
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In this verse
In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βασιλεύς
basileus
noun · 115×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ταράσσω
tarasso
verb · 17×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
Ἡρώδης
erodes
noun · 43×
Ἱεροσόλυμα
ierosoluma
noun · 61×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἡρῴδης | WH/Treg/NIV: ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἡρῴδης | RP: Ἡρῴδης ὁ βασιλεὺς
- ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἡρῴδης — SBLGNT
- ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἡρῴδης — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Ἡρῴδης ὁ βασιλεὺς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§486The Father's only Son, conceived as man in the womb of the Virgin Mary, is "Christ", that is to say, anointed by the Holy Spirit, from the beginning of his human existence, though the manifestation of this fact takes place only progressively: to the shepherds, to the magi, to John the Baptist, to the disciples.123 Thus the whole life of Jesus Christ will make manifest "how God …
Covers Herod's appointment as king by Rome, his conquest of Jerusalem with Roman help, the murder of the last Hasmoneans, his building of the Second Temple (a massive expansion of Zerubbabel's temple), and his relationship with Augustus. Josephus's Herod is essential for understanding the political backdrop of Matthew 2.
Cross-references
- 1Sam 24:20 — And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
- Acts 4:2 — Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
- Acts 17:6 — And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;
- Acts 17:8 — And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.
- Acts 23:35 — I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.
- John 11:47 — Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
- John 12:10 — But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
- Matt 2:1 — Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
- Matt 8:29 — And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
- Matt 23:37 — O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her