1. Now after Yehoshua was born in Beit-Lechem Yehudah, in the days of Herod [the Great, the Roman client] king --hinei!--chachamim from eretz Mizrach (the land of the East) arrived in Yerushalayim,
2. saying, Where is he that is born Melech HaYehudim? For we have seen his KOCHAV (star, Num 24:17) in the Mizrach and come to fall down before him.
3. Because Herod the king heard this, he was terribly shaken, and all Yerushalayim with him.
4. And assembling all the Rashei Hakohanim and Sofrim of the people, he inquired of them the place where Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was to be born.