When King Herod heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him.

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard reports about Jesus,

Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.