“They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them until it came and stood over where the young child was.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 2 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.