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1 Después de que Jesús nació en Belén de Judea, durante el reinado del rey Herodes, unos hombres sabios vinieron desde el oriente hasta Jerusalén.
Jesus was born in Bethlehem [town] in Judea [province] during the time [MTY] that King Herod [the Great ruled there. Some time] after Jesus was born, some men who studied the stars and who lived in a [country] east [of Judea] came to Jerusalem.
2 “¿Dónde está el Rey de los judíos que ha nacido?” preguntaron. “Vimos su estrella en el oriente y hemos venido a adorarlo”.
They asked [people], “Where is the one who has been born [in order that he might be] the king of [you] Jews? [We believe that your new king] has been born, because we have seen the star [that we believe indicated that] he has been [born]. [We saw it while we were in our country] east [of here]. So we have come to worship him.”
3 Cuando el rey Herodes escuchó esto, se preocupó mucho, y toda Jerusalén con él.
When King Herod heard [what those men were asking], he became worried [that someone else might be proclaimed] {[people might proclaim someone else]} [king of the Jews to replace him]. Many [of the people] of Jerusalem [MTY, HYP] [also] became worried [because they were afraid of what King Herod might do].
4 Entonces Herodes llamó a todos los jefes de los sacerdotes y a los maestros religiosos del pueblo, y les preguntó dónde se suponía que nacería el Mesías.
Then Herod gathered together all the ruling priests and men who taught the people the [Jewish] laws and he asked them where [the prophets had predicted that] the Messiah was to be born.
5 “En Belén de Judea”, le dijeron ellos, “pues eso fue lo que escribió el profeta:
They said to him, “[He will be born] in Bethlehem, [here] in Judea [province], because it was written by the prophet [Micah] {the prophet [Micah] wrote} [long ago what God said]:
6 ‘y tu, Belén, en la tierra de Judea, no eres la menor entre las ciudades reinantes de Judea, porque de ti saldrá un gobernante que será el pastor de mi pueblo Israel’”.
‘You [who live in] Bethlehem [APO], in Judea [province], your town is certainly very important [LIT], because a man from your [town] will become a ruler. He will guide my people [who live in] Israel.’”
7 Entonces Herodes llamó a los sabios y se reunió con ellos en privado, y logró saber por medio de ellos el momento exacto en que había aparecido la estrella.
Then [King] Herod secretly summoned those men who studied the stars. He asked them exactly when the star [first] appeared. [By what they told him, he was able to know the approximate age of the baby].
8 Los envió a Belén, diciéndoles: “cuando lleguen allí, busquen al niño, y cuando lo encuentren, háganmelo saber para yo ir a adorarlo también”.
Then he [concealed what he really planned to do and] said to them, “Go to Bethlehem and inquire thoroughly [where] the infant is. When you have found him, [come back and] report to me so that I, myself, can go [there and] worship him, too.”
9 Después que los sabios escucharon lo que el rey iba a decirles, siguieron su camino, y la estrella que habían visto en el oriente los guió hasta que se detuvo justo sobre el lugar donde estaba el niño.
After the men heard what the king [told them], they went [toward Bethlehem]. To their surprise, the star that they had seen while they were in the eastern [country] went ahead of them [again] until it stood above [the house] where the child was.
10 Cuando los sabios vieron la estrella, no pudieron contener la felicidad.
When they saw the star, they rejoiced greatly [and followed it].
11 Entraron a la casa y vieron al niño con María, su madre. Se arrodillaron y lo adoraron. Entonces abrieron sus bolsas de tesoros y le obsequiaron regalos de oro, incienso y mirra.
They [found] the house and entered it and saw the child and his mother, Mary. They bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasure [boxes] [MTY] and they gave gold, [costly] frankincense, and myrrh to him.
12 Advertidos por un sueño de no regresar ante Herodes, se marcharon a su país tomando otro camino.
[Because] God [knew that King Herod planned to kill Jesus], in a dream the men who studied the stars were warned {he warned the men who studied the stars} that they should not return to [King] Herod. So they returned to their country, [but instead of traveling back on the same road, they] went on a different road.
13 Después que se fueron los sabios, un ángel del Señor se le apareció a José en un sueño, y le dijo: “Levántate, toma al niño y a su madre, y huyan a Egipto. Quédense allí hasta que yo se los diga, porque Herodes va a buscar al niño para matarlo”.
After the men who studied the stars left [Bethlehem], an angel [from] the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. He said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you [(sg) that you should leave], because [King] Herod is about [to send soldiers] to look for the child so that they can kill him.”
14 Entonces José se levantó y tomó al niño y a su madre, y partió hacia Egipto en medio de la noche.
So Joseph got up, he took the child and his mother [that] night, and they fled to Egypt.
15 Permanecieron allí hasta que Herodes murió. Esto cumplió lo que el Señor dijo a través del profeta: “De Egipto llamé a mi hijo”.
They stayed there until [King] Herod died, [and then they left Egypt]. By doing that, it was {they} fulfilled what the prophet [Hosea] wrote, which had been said by the Lord {which the Lord had said}, I have told my son to come out of Egypt.
16 Cuando Herodes se dio cuenta que había sido engañado por los sabios, se enojó mucho. Entonces envió hombres para que matasen a todos los niños de Belén y de las regiones cercanas que tuvieran menos de dos años de edad. Esto se basaba en el marco de tiempo que escuchó de los sabios.
[While King] Herod [was still living], because he realized that he had been tricked by the men who studied the stars {the men who studied the stars had tricked him}, he became furious. Then, [assuming that Jesus was still in Bethlehem or the surrounding regions], Herod sent [soldiers there] to kill all the boy babies two years old and younger. [Herod calculated how old the baby was], according to what the men who studied the stars told him [about when the star first appeared].
17 Así se cumplió la profecía del profeta Jeremías:
[Because Bethlehem and Ramah towns were in the area where the descendants of Jacob’s wife Rachel lived, when soldiers killed the infant boys], they fulfilled what Jeremiah the prophet wrote,
18 “En Ramá se oyó una voz, llanto y gran lamento. Raquel llora por sus hijos, se niega a que la consuelen, porque están muertos”.
[Women] in Ramah were weeping and wailing loudly. [Women who were the descendants] of Rachel, [the ancestor of the women there] [SYN], were grieving for [what happened to] their children. [Even though people tried to comfort them], they would not be comforted {stop mourning}, because their children were dead.
19 Después que Herodes murió, el ángel del Señor se le apareció en un sueño a José en Egipto, y le dijo:
After Herod died [and while Joseph and his family were still in Egypt], an angel that the Lord [had sent] appeared to Joseph in Egypt in a dream.
20 “¡Levántate! Toma al niño y a su madre y regresa a la tierra de Israel, porque los que trataban de matar al niño están muertos”.
He said to Joseph, “Take the child and his mother and go back to Israel [to live], because the people who were looking for the child [in order to kill him] have died.”
21 Entonces José se levantó y tomó al niño y a su madre, y regresó a la tierra de Israel.
So Joseph took the child and his mother, and they went back to Israel.
22 Pero José tenía miedo de ir allá después que supo que Arquelao había sucedido a su padre, el rey Herodes, como rey de Judá. Habiendo sido advertido por medio de un sueño, José se fue a Galilea,
When Joseph heard that Archaelaus now ruled in Judea [district] instead of his father, [King] Herod [the Great], he was afraid to go there. Because he was warned {[God] warned Joseph} in a dream [that it was still dangerous for them to live in Judea], he [and Mary and Jesus] went to Galilee [District]
23 y se estableció en Nazaret. Esto cumplió lo que los profetas habían dicho: “Él será llamado Nazareno”.
to Nazareth [to live there]. The result was that what had been said by the ancient prophets {what the ancient prophets had said} [about the Messiah], that he would be called {people would call him} a Nazareth-man, was fulfilled {came true}.
