6 And having, according to the
custom of their country, made
a fire, they worshipped it.
7 And casting the swaddling
cloth into it, the fire took it
and kept it.
8 And when the fire was put out,
they took forth the swaddling cloth
unhurt, as much as if the fire had
not touched it.
9 Then they began to kiss it,
and put it upon their heads and
their eyes saying, This is certainly
an undoubted truth, and it is really
surprising that the fire could not
burn it, and consume it.
10 Then they took it, and with
the greatest respect laid it up
among their treasures.
CHAPTER IV.
1 Herod intends to put Christ to death.
3 An angel warns Joseph to take the child
and his mother into Egypt.
6 Consternation on their arrival.
13 The idols fall down.
15 Mary washes Christ's swaddling clothes, hangs them to
dry on a post, and the son of a priest puts one on his head;
16 And being possessed of devils they leave him.
NOW Herod perceiving that the
wise men did delay and not return
to him, called together the priest
and wise men, and said, Tell me in
what place the Christ should be born.
2 And when they replied, in
Bethlehem,—a city of Judaea, he
began to contrive in his own mind
the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.