Matthew 2:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷ Then Herod secretly called for the magi^[a] and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared. ⁸ Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage.” ⁹ When they had heard the king, they set out, and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen in the east,^[b] until it stopped over the place where the child was.