Mateus 2:8

A Biblia Sagrada

E, enviando-os a Belm, disse: Ide, e perguntai diligentemente pelo menino e, quando o achardes, participai-mo, para que tambm eu v e o adore.

Parallel Translations

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
E, enviando-os a Belm, disse-lhes: Ide informar-vos cuidadosamente a respeito do menino; e, quando o tiverdes encontrado, avisai-me, para eu tambm ir ador-lo.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
E, enviando-os a Belm, disse: Ide, e perguntai diligentemente pelo menino, e, quando o achardes, participai-mo, para que tambm eu v e o adore.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

go: 1 Samuel 23:22, 1 Samuel 23:23, 2 Samuel 17:14, 1 Kings 19:2, Job 5:12, Job 5:13, Psalms 33:10, Psalms 33:11, Proverbs 21:30, Lamentations 3:37, 1 Corinthians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 3:20

that: Matthew 26:48, Matthew 26:49, 2 Samuel 15:7-12, 2 Kings 10:18, 2 Kings 10:19, Ezra 4:1, Ezra 4:2, Psalms 12:2, Psalms 12:3, Psalms 55:11-15, Proverbs 26:24, Proverbs 26:25, Jeremiah 41:5-7, Luke 20:20, Luke 20:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:14 - uncircumcised 1 Samuel 15:15 - to 1 Kings 21:9 - Proclaim a fast 2 Kings 8:4 - Tell Psalms 21:11 - are not Ecclesiastes 10:13 - beginning

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he sent them to Bethlehem,.... Having got out of them all that he could, and was for his purpose, he informs them of the place where they might find the person they came to inquire after, according to the account of it which the chief priests and scribes had given him; and then sends them away to Bethlehem, where Christ, according to prophecy, was to be born, and now was born. It may seem strange that neither any of the Jews, nor Herod, or any of his ministers and courtiers, should go along with these men to Bethlehem; since it was but a little way off, not above five or six miles from Jerusalem; and since the birth of such a person was no trivial thing, but an affair of great concern and importance. The Jews might not care to go, lest Herod should suspect that they were going to revolt from him, and set up this new born king against him; and it might be a piece of policy in Herod and his courtiers not to accompany them, for they might imagine that the parents of the child would be jealous and afraid of them, and would therefore conceal it, when they would be in no fear of strangers: and no doubt but the wise providence of God overruled and directed this matter, that so the young child Jesus might be preserved from the bloody designs of this tyrant; who often takes the wise in their own craftiness, and carries the counsel of the froward headlong. When he dismissed them he gave them this charge and these orders,

go and search diligently for the young child; go to Bethlehem, the place of his birth I have told you of, and there inquire and search in every house and family, omit none till you have found him;

and when you have found him bring me word again; give me a particular account of him, who are his parents, and where he dwells,

that I may come and worship him also: for they had declared, that the reason of their coming was to worship him; this he said hypocritically, in order to hide and cover his bloody intentions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Go, and search diligently ... - Herod took all possible means to obtain accurate information respecting the child, that he might be sure of destroying him. He not only ascertained the probable time of his birth, and the place where he would be born, but he sent the wise men that they might actually see him, and bring him word. All this might have looked suspicious if he had not clothed it with the appearance of religion. He said to them, therefore, that he did it that he might go and worship him also. From this we may learn,

1. That wicked people often cloak their evil designs under the appearance of religion. They attempt to deceive those who are really good, and to make them suppose that they have the same design.
2. Wicked people often attempt to make use of the pious to advance their evil purposes. Men like Herod will stop at nothing if they can carry out their ends. They endeavor to deceive the simple, to allure the unsuspecting, and to beguile the weak, in order to accomplish their own purposes of wickedness.
3. The plans of wicked people are often well laid. Those plans occupy a long time. Such people make diligent inquiry, and all of it has the appearance of religion. But God sees through the design; and though people are deceived, yet God cannot be fooled, Proverbs 15:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 2:8. That I may come and worship him also. — See Matthew 2:2, and on Genesis 17:3, and Exodus 4:31. What exquisite hypocrisy was here! he only wished to find out the child that he might murder him; but see how that God who searches the heart prevents the designs of wicked men from being accomplished!