6 The gifts of the wise men
The gifts of the wise men. Herod gives ordersto kill all baby boys On coming to the house, the wise men saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, he was furious, 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 wise men. So Herod s soldiers went to Bethlehem and killed all the baby boys. Matthew 2:1012, 1618.
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