But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf. (Micah 5:2)

Read: Micah 5:1-7:20, Revelation 7:1-17, Psalm 135:1-21, Proverbs 30:5-6

Relate: “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf.” With this famous prophesy the question, “where” was answered for a cadre of Persian magi. They had arrived unannounced and uninvited on Herod’s doorstep saying the stars declare a new king of the Jews has just been born. Herod, the current king of the Jews consults the religious leaders in Jerusalem and passes on from them to these magi that the king they seek has been born in Bethlehem.