After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Now when Jesus learned of this, he went away from there. Great crowds followed him, and he healed them all.

When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he told his disciples,

When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.

When the people there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.

And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, paralytics, and those possessed by demons, and he healed them.

Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

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.