Bethlehem! How did the scribes know?

When King Herod heard about this, he was very upset, and so was everyone else in Jerusalem. He called together all the chief priests and the teachers of the Law and asked them, “Where will the Messiah be born?”

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“In the town of Bethlehem in Judea,” they answered. “For this is what the prophet wrote.

(Matthew 2:3–5)