The Road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem
The Road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem The Holy Family returned from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. How long they remained at Bethlehem, and how they lived while there, we do not know. It was sometime between this and the day of their departure for Egypt that the Wise Men arrived in Jerusalem from the Far East asking the question which was strange and startling tidings to Herod and to the people of Jerusalem. They came saying: “Where is He that is born King of the Jews ? for we have seen His star in the East, and are come to worship Him .” Herod gathered the chief priests and scribes together and learned from them that Bethlehem was to be the birth-place of the Messiah according to the prophet; and he then sent the Wise Men to make further inquiry concerning the child and then to report the result of their investigation to him. And “when they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the East, went before them, till it came and stood over where the yo...