\subsection{Matthew 2}
\subsubsection{The Visit of the Wise Men}
\VS{1} Now when Iesous was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, 
behold visionaries\footnote{\MAGOS} from the east arrived in Jerusalem 
\VS{2} saying: Where 
is the [one] having been brought forth, [the] king of the Jews? For we saw his star in 
the East and came to worship him. 
\VS{3} Now having heard [this] Herod the king 
was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 
\VS{4} And gathering all the 
chief-priests and scribes of the people he asked from them where the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One] 
would be born. 
\VS{5} And they said to him: In Bethlehem of Judea. For thus 
it is written by the prophet\footnote{Mic.5:2},
\begin{verse}

\VS{6} And you Bethlehem, land of Judah \\
In no way are you least among the rulers of Judah \\
For out of you shall come [a] ruler \\
Who will shepherd my people Israel.
\end{verse}

\VS{7} Then Herod having secretly called the visionaries\footnote{\MAGOS}, he exacted from 
them the time of the appearance of [the] star, 
\label{matt2x8}
\VS{8} and having sent them to Bethlehem he said: Having gone, search out accurately concerning the child, and when you find him, report to me, so that I also, having come, may worship him. 
\VS{9} So having heard [this] from the king, they went. And behold the star that they saw in the east led them until, having come, it stood above where the child was. 
\VS{10} And having seen the star, they rejoiced 
with exceedingly great joy. 
\VS{11} And having come to the house, they saw 
the child with Mary his mother, and having fallen down they worshipped him, 
and having opened their treasures they brought to him gifts: gold and 
frankincense and myrrh. 
\VS{12} And having been warned in [a] dream not 
to return to Herod, by another road they withdrew to their own country.

\subsubsection{The Escape to Egypt}
\VS{13} Now when they returned, behold an angel of the Lord appears to 
Ioseph in [a] dream saying: Having arisen, be taking the child and his mother, 
and be fleeing to Egypt, and be there until I say [otherwise] to you. For Herod is 
about to be seeking the child to destroy him. 
\VS{14} So having arisen he 
took the child and his mother by night and withdrew to Egypt. 
\VS{15} And he 
was there until the death of Herod, in order that the [things] said by the Lord 
through the prophet be fulfilled when he says\footnote{Hos.11:1}:

\begin{verse}
Out of Egypt I called my son.
\end{verse}

\VS{16} When Herod saw that he had been deceived by the visionaries\footnote{\MAGOS} he was 
extremely enraged, and having sent, he carried off all the [male] children in 
Bethlehem and all its environs from two years and under, according to the 
time he exacted from the visionaries. 
\VS{17} Then the [things] said through 
Jeremiah the prophet were fulfilled when he says\footnote{Jer.31:15}:

\begin{verse}
\VS{18} A sound was heard in Rama, \\
Great wailing
\footnote{``wailing'' \sinaiticus{}B \vulgate{}; ``weeping and wailing'' DW \hesychian{}\koine{}} 
and lamenting, \\
Rachel wailing for her children, \\
And she will not be comforted, \\
For they are no more.
\end{verse}

\subsubsection{The Return to Nazareth}
\VS{19} Now Herod having come to [his] end
\footnote{i.e. ``having died''}, 
behold [an] angel of the Lord appears to Ioseph in a dream in Egypt 
\VS{20} saying: 
Having arisen, be taking the child and his mother and go to the land Israel, 
for those seeking the psyche-life\fnPsyche{} of the child have died. 
\VS{21} So having arisen 
he took the child and his mother and entered into the land Israel. 
\VS{22} And having heard that Archelaus was king of Judea instead of his father 
Herod, he was afraid to depart from there. And having been warned in a dream 
he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 
\VS{23} and having gone he dwelt in 
[a] city being called Nazareth. In this manner the [things] said through the prophet 
were fulfilled that he will be called [a] Nazarene.
