1 Now after Yehoshua was born in Beit-Lechem Yehudah, in the days of Herod2:1 the Great, the Roman client king — hinei! — chachamim from eretz Mizrach (the land of the East) arrived in Yerushalayim, 2 saying, Where is he that is born Melech HaYehudim? For we have seen his KOCHAV2:2 Num 24:17 (star) in the Mizrach and come to fall down before him.