Who tried to use the magi against Jesus?
Herod
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.
He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you
find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."
On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.
Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.
And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said,
"take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going
to search for the child to kill him."Where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the
prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son." (Luke 2:8-17)
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill
all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the
time he had learned from the Magi. (Mathew 2:16)
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