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An elder holding a rolled scroll answers Herod, whose crimson shoulder is at the edge of the view.
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Matthew 2:5

The Answer Is Bethlehem

The Magi and the Flight · Matthew 2

Story guide: The answering elder becomes the focal figure, holding a scroll as he speaks to Herod.

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5And they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it has been written through the prophet:

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