Clinton Charity Fraud Revealed To Congress: Will The Clinton's Faith In Voodoo Be Nothing More Than Just Doo-Doo in 2019? Sure Hope So.

Greg Hunter, formerly of ABC and CNN gives a Christmas 2018 Message which also includes a prominent reminder of Forensic Auditor Testimony before Congress this month that the Clintons only have their LIBRARY listed as a 501c3 Charity.  ONLY THE CLINTON LIBRARY.

The Clinton Global Initiative and all the other alleged Clinton Charities that collected between 5 to 12 BILLION DOLLARS -- according to two forensic auditors who testified to Congress  in December 2018 -- did so FRAUDULENTLY. 

According to these who reviewed rooms of paper documents from the Clinton's Little Rock Arkansas Law Enforcement seized with warrants business papers...the Clintons ran like they were a Charity when they weren't?  That means:

 Money for Haitian Earthquake relief?  Fraud.  

 Money for Charity work in Africa and elsewhere besides the Clinton Library itself?  Fraud.

 In effect, what the forensic auditors told Congress 
https://www.rt.com/usa/446522-clinton-foundation-foreign-agent-testimony/
was words to the effect that the Clinton Foundation of ANYTHING but the Library is nothing more than Criminal racketeering on a scale of nothing less than Organized Crime?  Yup.  Guess so.  THAT is what NOT having a 501c3 exemption means for the Clintons.  

It gets worse. "The Clinton Foundation acted as an agent of foreign governments"?

The above linked Russia Today reports:

Fraud investigators have exposed the Clinton Foundation’s alleged misdeeds in a Congressional hearing, describing it as a de facto “foreign agent” devoted not to charity but to “advancing the personal interests of its principals.”

The Clinton Foundation acted as an agent of foreign governments “early in its life and throughout its existence,” according to testimony by former government forensic investigator John Moynihan, which, if true, would not only render it in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act but also would violate its nonprofit charter, putting it on the hook for a massive quantity of unpaid taxes.


The foundation began acting as an agent of foreign governments early in its life and continued doing so throughout its existence, as such, the foundation should have registered under FARA.

Moynihan and fellow ex-government investigator Lawrence Doyle shared 6,000 pages of evidence with the IRS over 18 months ago, only to be met with silence. They shared them with the FBI multiple times – ditto. Yet when the pair testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, they refused to turn over the documents, stating they did not want to interfere with any ongoing investigations.

The committee chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said witnesses’ reluctance to share all the documents was hardly a “good foundation for truth and transparency,” while Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) said he felt the duo was “using” the panel for their own benefit.

“These are not our facts. They are not your facts. They are the facts of the Clinton Foundation,” said Moynihan, maintaining his interest in the case is purely financial – not political.

Testifying on their findings, Doyle highlighted the Foundation’s alleged “misuse of donated public funds,” explaining that it “falsely attested that it received funds and used them for charitable purposes which was, in fact, not the case. Rather the foundation pursued in an array of activities both domestically and abroad,” which included activities “properly characterized as profit-oriented and taxable undertakings of private enterprise, again failing the operational tests of philanthropy referenced above,” referring to the equally non-charitable pursuit of funding the Clinton Presidential Library.

John Huber, appointed by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the Clinton Foundation after Sessions recused himself from doing so, was conspicuously absent from the hearing, even though his job is to probe Clinton’s approval of the sale of US uranium assets to Russia.


Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton also gave testimony, outlining how “it was hard to tell where the Clinton State Department ended and the Clinton Foundation began” – so much so that the King of Bahrain, unable to meet with Clinton as Secretary of State, secured a meeting with the Foundation instead.

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) likened the testimony to “Alice in Wonderland,” claiming yet another investigation of the Clintons was an attempt to distract from the ongoing investigations of Trump. “We have a ruling…saying there is sufficient grounds to go forward with a criminal investigation of the Trump Foundation, not the Clinton Foundation,” he said, adding that the committee had an informant in the Uranium One deal-making process who was unable to present any evidence of wrongdoing.


Meanwhile, the FBI has missed a deadline to turn over information on why they raided the home of another Clinton Foundation whistleblower, Nathan Cain, earlier this week. Cain’s lawyer says his client – who reportedly gave the Justice Department documents showing federal officials failed to investigate criminal activity related to the Uranium One deal – was accused of possessing stolen federal property.

Source: Russia Today   https://www.rt.com/usa/446522-clinton-foundation-foreign-agent-testimony/
‘Unregistered foreign agent’: Clinton Foundation oversight panel hears explosive testimony
Published time: 15 Dec, 2018 04:03

Edited time: 15 Dec, 2018 11:55



In effect, such charges of operating under false pretenses were made both in 2015 
https://www.wnd.com/2015/04/wall-street-analyst-uncovers-clinton-foundation-fraud/

and in 2016.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-07/clinton-foundation-charity-fraud-epic-proportions-analyst-charges-stunning-takedown


The 2014 Clinton Foundation pdf  clearly joins the entire family into its financial practices and lists the 
Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation
and page 28 of the ff. pdf shows a 501(c) IRS filing in 2014.
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/sites/default/files/clinton_foundation_report_public_2014.pdf

It's not just about Treason, which is the death penalty because it is a time of war (this applies to Bill, Hillary AND Chelsea who are financially involved in the money-taking from Russia for a $102,350,000  payoff for 20% of US Uranium which it then sells to Iran et al.), it is also about the other money corruption, and that also leads to the pedophilia, alleged human sacrifices (children and other rape victims, allegedly), and so forth...and all that is tied into Bill and Hillary's personal belief system which is a mixture of various forms of Satanism.  Some of them being so incredibly idiotic, you would think it be a scene from an Abbott and Costello movie.

  

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton as POTUS affirmed on a certain island trip that he still believed in and practiced voodoo at that time.  

Some 20 years earlier, for Bill & Hillary's honeymoon, in 1975,  Bill and Hillary specifically went to Haiti to engage in direct immersion into voodoo with a witch doctor priest as part of their becoming one flesh marriage spiritualism in which they thrust themselves as emissaries of the Devil (or words to this effect)  into the dark arts of Satanism and apparently from the very beginning of their marriage to present day being inwardly very vicious  individuals and biographically it could rationally and legally be argued that these two are indeed very hard core Satanists of a sort. 

In 2016, Hillary would reduce herself, it is alleged, to making voodoo dolls of people...not just members of the Press and members of Congress, which she ADMITS to doing, 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/her-new-book-what-happened-hillary-clinton-blames-many-defeat-n799611
but also of those like Donald Trump and others she also despised.  

But getting back to Haitian Voodoo binding Bill and Hillary spiritually in 1975.  Well 35 years later, the Clintons were a big part of a scam of Haitian Earthquake Relief, in the BILLIONS of $$ and Haitians despise the Clintons to this day for giving them what amounted to between 1 and 3 cents on the dollar of all the Billions that the Clintons as a non-charity organization raised ILLEGALLY as if a charity and ILLEGALLY kept.  Billions of dollars raised for Haiti relief, keep 97 to 99%, de jure pay off those you have to, de jure laugh all the way to several various banks in different East Coast states from DC to New York.  



An arrest, speedy trial, conviction, and execution of the Clintons by the Federal Government (preferably by January 1 2019 and over by March 1 2019, we can only wish....)  seems to be a necessity if the USA is going to re-establish the rule of law domestically, instead of descending into anarchy and self-destruction by non-enforcement of Federal laws that exist now.  

Merry Christmas 2018

 

          Merry Christmas, 2018! 

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY NAME WHEREBY HUMANITY CAN BE INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY SAVE.  HE WHO REJECTS CHRIST JESUS, REJECTS GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, OF WHOSE SAME ESSENCE AND BEING AND PERFECT MIRRORING REFLECTION THAT JESUS CHRIST IS.  THEREFORE, LET US REJOICE THAT CHRIST JESUS OFFERS HUMANITY, BY THE ACTION OF SIMPLE TRUSTING FAITH AND CONFESSION INTO HIM, TO RECEIVE CHRIST JESUS INTO THEIR SOUL, MAKE IT ETERNALLY ALIVE, AND HAVE THE PROMISE AND ASSURANCE OF SPIRITUAL ETERNAL LIFE AND A NEW BODY MADE BY GOD FOR THEM AFTER THIS ONE ENDS, AND TO DWELL FOREVERMORE IN THE PRESENCE AND CARE OF JESUS CHRIST THE LORD.  HALLELUJAH.  AMEN.

      As many readers of my blog know, I have previously repeatedly shown that the literary history regarding the New Testament allows me to state that it is a FACT of history that the Gospel of Luke was written between the fall of 49 A.D. and the Spring of 51 A.D.  Therefore, Luke’s Gospel is the first in the chronology of the 4 Gospels, and was written in the presence of and with the help of at least half of the Apostles in their careful recollections, and done while Luke assisted the Apostle Paul as he evangelized Corinth of Achaia with the Apostle Peter.   The Gospel of John was the other multi-Apostle composed work, but the last Gospel (written very soon after Peter and Paul’s executions in Rome on June 29, 57 A.D.), while Matthew (comprising of Matthew’s witness) and Mark (comprising of Peter’s witnessing while he was at Rome), are the in-between Gospels in the chronological order in which the Gospels came into the world and were “published”, as it were.

     In Luke Chapter 2, we start the Christmas event with the Shepherds in the fields some 4.5 to 6  miles south of Jerusalem in October of 5 B.C.

As to the location of the Bethlehem Jesus was born in, it remains BURIED on a hillside in Israel unto this day, and under alien authority (Fatah pseudo-Palestinian West Bank of Judea) governance and control.

Justin Martyr, in his Apology, 1.34, locates the Bethlehem of Judea in which Messiah was born into the world as specifically being 4 to 4.1 miles   south of the what is probably the northern side of the Hinom valley at the southern city wall of Jerusalem in the First Century B.C.,  when he says:

"And thou, Bethlehem, the land of Judah" etc.

"Now there is a village in the land of the Jews, 35 stadia from Jerusalem, in which Jesus Christ was born, as you can [still] ascertain also from the registers of the taxing made under Cyrenius, your first procurator in Judea."

To the Romans of the era from Christ to that of Justin Martyr, 1 stadia was roughly 606 - 630 feet in our measurements. Therefore, 35 stadia was roughly 4.0 to 4.1 miles from Jerusalem's Old City.

Many historians quickly gloss over the significance of the statement of Justin Martyr, from which those having perspicacity can quite well understand the deeper insight from Justin Martyr’s statement from which I quoted, tells us his testimony is thus:

1) There were still existing meticulously detailed and publicly accessible Roman records in Judea about Judeans and events of Judea inscribed in those records, about a century and a half after their entry. 

2) The taxing Bureaucracy were thorough and exacting record keeping  Administrators who made sure that not only was Joseph and Mary taxed, but they also got the name of the baby born to them while they were at Bethlehem for the Census.  This actually would tie in with Matthew 1:20-21,25 as to how Joseph named Jesus / Yeshua his name, when he had been recorded prior to the 8^th day circumcision of the child after that Jesus / Yeshua was born. 

3) Cyrenius was called the 1st procurator of Judea.

4) This Bethlehem location, no longer extant, and later replaced with a mistaken Byzantine location some 4 miles further away from Jerusalem, this correct 4 mile away from Jerusalem hometown and birthplace of King David as well as Jesus, was still existing in the second century A.D., as was factually known to have existed in Cyrenius' and Jesus' day (probably by both Roman records, and generational families that lived there, even through two major and disastrous Jewish revolts.   

5) The location of this Bethlehem rules out all other nominations for Jesus' birthplace, being 35 stadia from Jerusalem.

Currently, the Bethlehem of Jesus' lies buried and unexcavated under open fields and winding roads north-northeast of the current city of Bethlehem.  It is miles outside the boundaries of the modern Bethlehem, and almost half as close to Jerusalem as the one now occupied by Muslim fanatics wishing to destroy a true reality they cannot. 

Furthermore, various Christian denominations and sects who are attached to the modern Bethlehem are currently worshipping in the wrong place.   

But does any of that take away from the historical reality of Christ, of who He is, what He did in coming to Earth from Heaven to be born among us and what He did at the Cross, or the reality of His dying as our atonement of sins, being raised the 3^rd day, ascending to back to Heaven visibly before more than 120 witnesses, et cetera?   Absolutely not.   The historical record and the true reality of things remain sound, even if people are misled, intentionally or otherwise, as to the specific square footage plots as where Jesus was born, or where Jesus suffered on the Cross (being the Kidron and Hinom Valley Juncture, but still at Jerusalem as the Scripture says  – Revelation 11:8)

Luke 2

King James Version (KJV)

King James Version (KJV) in aqua Blue

Alternate Word Pictures with Reiterations Version (AWPR) in Yellow

My Comments are in Green

1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.  (KJV)

1)    And it came into being then in those days,

       (there) went forth out a dogma – decree – command

        from near and with the force of Caesar Augustus,

       (that) all the (ones) dwelling in permanent dwellings

       (were) to be written down – enrolled – registered in writing.

  (AWPR)

2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 

(KJV)

         2)    That was the first writing down – enrolling – registration

                 in writing that came into being.

                 Acting as ruler – governor – procurator of

                 Syria: Kureniou/Cyrenius.

                (AWPR)

[Note:  The 5th century Codex Bezae (D) moved the words of Luke 2:2 after this translation, so as to read:

 “This coming into existence writing down – enrolling – registration.  First governing (the) Syria:  Kureniou / Cyrenius.”

The First Greek version of the Codex Siniaticus has a differing word order than what we are now accustomed to in our modern Greek translations.   That word order reads:

Haute  apographo  egeneto  prote hegemoneuontos tas surias kureniou.-- Earliest Codex Siniaticus

"This writing down – enrolling - registration BEGAN TO COME INTO EXISTENCE  first  - (that is,) before  the governing of Syria by Kureniou/ Cyrenius."  (translation mine)  ]

3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.  (KJV)

    3)  And running and passing through / traveling together

         went all / everyone to be 

         written down – enrolled – registered in writing.

         Each one into (his) own (private) 

         individual city/protected settlement

         having ascended up – went up.   

         (AWPR)

4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)      (KJV)

      4)  Then also Joseph from Galilee --

           out of the city - inhabited /protected settlement 

           of Nazaerth,  (went) into Judea,

           into the city - inhabited /protected settlement

           of David, which is called (by name) Bethlehem through it being

           of the House and Family of David –  

           (AWPR)

5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. (KJV)

       5)    To be written down - enrolled - registered in writing

                with Miriam / Mary: 

               the one recollecting, being betrothed to him 

                (as) a betrothed / engaged

                 maid –damsel – wife to be 

                [by means of a contractual promise],

                existing as one being

                inswelled – heavily pregnant – heavily with child.

                (AWPR)   

      

6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.  (KJV)

       6) Then it came into being – it happened

             in their being – existing there / in that place,

             the days (for) the bearing and bringing forth (of) her

             were fully past – completed – fulfilled.

           (AWPR)

7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.  (KJV)   

 7)   And she bore and brought forth the first-born son of her,

         and she enwrapped Him in clothes as in a band about Him,

         and reclined – laid Him in the stall – pen – manger,

        for that on account of      [this reason] – because (there)

        certainly not was for them a (dwelling) place (or room)

        in the Katalumati / The Inn – the place of loosening

        [of belts, sandals, burdens].

        (AWPR)

 8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.  (KJV)

8) And Shepherds were in the range – grazing lands –

    fields of the province / region/ country. 

    The same (persons)

    remaining and living in the range – grazing lands – fields

    of the    province / region/ country,

    also observing and keeping a watchful preserving 

    guard /custody    of the night   over / upon the flock of them.

   (AWPR)

9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.  (KJV)   

9)  And behold, look and see!  An angel of the LORD

     Stood near upon and over them,

     And the glory – dazzling brightness and radiant splendor 

     of (the) LORD / of YHVeH

     shone – lightened up with brilliant light like a lamp about them;

[Acts 26:13 describes brilliance above the brightness of the sun,

 Isaiah 30:26 puts such light as 7 times the brilliance of 

the noon-day sun.    

The text here says that brilliance lit up and focused in 

and around the shepherds,

NOT that the whole world was lit up]. 

And they feared and trembled with a great terror.

[They feared and shook nervously, greatly frightened, 

and were seized with a sudden instinctual fright that inclined 

them greatly to run away.] 

 (AWPR)

  

10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.  (KJV)

    10)   But spoke to them the Angel:

                   'Do not fear and tremble / do not fear (and run away).

                    Behold, look and see;

                    for because I bring and proclaim good news to you;

                    a great and growing joy  [cf. Hebrew 'gadol']

                    which will be to all the people [of Israel] /

                    which will be to all the nations 

                    [both of the Gentiles  as well as Israel].'

                    (AWPR) 

11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.  (KJV)

      11) Because was born - brought forth to you, today,

            a Savior, who is Christ (the) LORD,

            in the city  - protected settlement  of David.

            (AWPR)

12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.  (KJV)

       12)  And this to you, 

              a sign - an event - a mark - a token of confirmation:

              you will search inquire - find / discover a babe

            [brephas - before birth and after birth, a baby; one who 

                is directly dependent upon the mother for nourishment or 

                breastfeeding for survival.  see also v. 11 "born this day" ]  

               having been enwrapped about (as) in a band 

               of swaddling clothes,

               placed laying down - set down reclining 

               in the stall - pen / manger.

               (AWPR)

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,  (KJV)

 

      13)   And unexpectingly suddenly (there) came into being

               together with the Angel

               a great throng - multitude (a fullness of people all around)

               of a Heavenly Angelic Army

               praising [giving exhortations of blessing and well speaking]

               GOD, and speaking - uttering definite words - saying:

               (AWPR) 

14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.  (KJV)

       14)  'Glory - Praise with thoughtful recognition and honor duly rendered

              in highest places / (the) highest

              to GOD,

              and upon Earth: 

                       Peace (with Tranquility)  - 

                       Peace of mind, body, and spirit with kindness and happiness;

              [cf. Hebrew 'Shalom']  

                       in men, pleasing favor / good will

                       in - among - before men.'

                      (AWPR)

15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.  (KJV)

   15)   And it came into being (just) as the angels

            withdrew - departed from them into the Heaven,

            and (then) - and (after that) the men, the shepherds

            said - spoke up alongside with one another,

 [suggests to us that they were at differing points of distances from one 

  another surrounding the flock/herd they were keeping, and it follows that the 

  dazzling brilliant light of the Angel of the LORD lit up the flock also]

                'Let us indeed - Let us by all means go through

                 unto Bethlehem,

                 and let us experience the seeing of this spoken word

                 having occurred,

                 the which the LORD 

                 made known - declared - revealed to us.'

                 (AWPR)

16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.  (KJV)

     16)  And they came hastily - hurrying quickly,

            and diligently sought out and found out

            both Miriam / Mary and Yosef / Joseph

            and the (newborn) baby 

            lying down - reclining in the stall - pen / manger.

           (AWPR)

17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.  (KJV)

      17)  Then experiencing the seeing,

              they made known and distinguished - 

              they publicly spread and made distinctly known

             around concerning - about in respect to

              the spoken word to them 

              concerning / about / in respect to  this child.  

             (AWPR)

18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.  (KJV)

     18)   And all those attentively hearing - listening 

              were struck with marvel - astonishment / wondered

              concerning - in respect to - about

              the random things spoken 

              by - through - (otherwise having occurred) 

              without notice by

              the Shepherds up alongside with them.    

             (AWPR)

      [Comment:  Why did the hearers marvel?  

       Because the hearers were Jews,

       and the Shepherds were of the Gentiles, 

       who in verse 20 'epestrephan' / 'converted' to Judaism  

       because of this Angelic Proclamation. 

        Luke uses the same word for conversion

        in the previous chapter in Luke 1:16,17.  

        True Heaven sent proclamations will always uphold 

        and proclaim Yeshua / Jesus as mankind's only means

        of true Peace with GOD the Father and amongst ourselves. ]

19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.  (KJV)

      19) Then Miriam / Mary intensely kept and guarded all the 

             spoken words / sayings cast together / pondered and

             considered

             in the heart of her.   

             (AWPR)

20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.  (KJV)

     20)   And the Shepherds converted 

              [Greek 'epestrephan']

               glorifying - giving esteem and honor with recognition

                and singing praises to GOD upon / over all things 

                which they had (intently) listened to / (carefully) heard

                and beheld (with the eyes)

                even as - inasmuch as was spoken up alongside with them.

              (AWPR)

21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.  (KJV)

     21)  And when were accomplished - completed - fulfilled 

            8 Days to circumcise the recently born / little child,

            also was called forth the name of Him, Jesus / Yeshua;

            that called  through / under the Angel

            before He was grasped and taken together / conceived

            in the womb.   

           (AWPR)

22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;  (KJV)

     22)  And when were accomplished - completed - fulfilled 

            the days of the cleansing - purification of her,

            according to the Law - Statute of Moses,

            they took up - brought - carried Him 

            to Jerusalem

            to present - to place near the LORD.

            (AWPR)

23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)  (KJV)

     23) As according to (what) 

             has been written - inscribed - carved

             in the Law - Statute of the LORD.

                     'Every male opening a womb 

                     shall be Holy to the LORD.'

               (AWPR)

24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.  (KJV)

      24) Also to give - bestow - present -offer a sacrificial offering

           [of obedience] according to - in respect to 

           that said - declared   in the Law - Statute of (the) LORD:

           'A yoke - a joining of two - a pair of turtledoves,

            or two young - nestling doves.' "    

           (AWPR)

Disclaimer:  The Alternate Word Pictures with Reiterations (AWPR) translation should be used as a Bible Study Aid only, and it is recommended that a direct literal translation or the King James Bible be used for regular and ecclesiastical purposes, and that the AWPR be used in association only as a Bible study aid so as to help the reader / user in their Bible Studying to clarify context and Scriptural Intent.     Thanks.  -- Brianroy

Matthew Chapter 2

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King James Version (KJV)

Alternate Word Pictures with Reiterations (AWPR) - Translation mine.

1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, (KJV)

    1)    Then Jesus / Yeshua, having been born in Bethlehem of Judea

        in the days of Herod the king:

Behold, look and see;

Magi from (the) rising sun – from (the) dawn – from (the) East

(publicly and noticeably) arrived into Jerusalem,  (AWPR)

2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. (KJV)

      2)    Uttering definite words – saying:

          ‘In what place – Where is He (whom is) brought forth – born

            King of the Jews?

            For – Because   we beheld – saw – observed – watched

            the luminous body – the star of Him in the East,                

            and came forth publicly so as to make an appearance

            to kiss – to adore – to show respect and falling/ prostrating   

             obeisance

           -  to worship him.

           (AWPR)

3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.  (KJV) 

      3)    Then (paying heed and) hearing intently – listening (carefully),

Herod the king

was stirred up and agitated / troubled with great fear and questions,

and all of Jerusalem with him.   (AWPR)

4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.  (KJV)

      4)    And gathering – assembling together

       the first / chief priests and Scribes

[Scribes - includes scribes who copy the Torah, Accountants,

and Civil Servant / Officials that were Recorders, Librarians, and other

various forms of Book or Document Keepers (including tax-collectors like    Matthew, author of this Gospel).]

            of the people,

            he asked – inquired – examined from them

            where – in what place the Christ was to be born.  (AWPR)

5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, (KJV)

     5)     Then they said – spoke – replied to him,

       ‘In Bethlehem of Judea,

         for thus – in this manner or way

         it has been engraved – inscribed – carved – written

         through the prophet,     (AWPR)

6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor that shall rule my people Israel.  (KJV)

     6)     ‘And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah,

   by no means – not at all

   are you least in rank – dignity – importance

   in – amongst the leaders – rulers – governors of Judah;

   for – because out of you will proceed / come forth

   a leader – chief – commander – ruler,

   someone who will Shepherd the people – nation

   of Me, Israel.  (AWPR)

7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. (KJV)

     7)    At that time then, Herod in a manner or way concealed from notice –

secretly – discreetly – privately

calling – summoning forth – authoritatively invited

the Magi – the wise men

(and) asked precisely - inquired accurately / inquired exactly

from them the Time – Period – Season

of the shining – illuminating – giving light

[and remaining in that state of excessive illumination]

star – luminous body.   (AWPR)

8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.  (KJV)

     8)    And causing to go – sending them

[implies a military escort for part of the journey to ensure they

 went on the correct road and were certainly on their way.  Herod was in Jerusalem only 4.1 plus miles to the north, where sending word back to him could be done by one servant sent back on foot, even walking by lamp or torch by night, in just inside one hour]

into Bethlehem, he said,

     ‘Having walked and passed – having gone through,

      accurately examine – exactly with diligence find out –

      inquire thoroughly about

      regarding the little child.

      Then, as soon as – whenever you find and search out / discover,

      announce it to – send word to – make known to

      me,  so that I may also come up alongside with (you)

      to worship Him.’     (AWPR) 

Comment on distance:

Justin, in his Apology, 1.34, says:  "And thou, Bethlehem, the land of Judah" etc.  ‘Now there is a village in the land of the Jews, 35 stadia  [4.1 miles] from Jerusalem, in which Jesus Christ was born, as you can [still] ascertain also from the registers of the taxing made under Cyrenius, your first procurator in Judea."  It appears to me that the Inn or House to where Jesus was to be located was in this general vicinity at least a mile closer than the boundaries of modern Bethlehem and in the hills northeast of the current modern city, as yet unexcavated.  That makes sense that if Bethlehem was so crowded that there was no room, they would be forced to make the best they could in the outskirts of the city, at a in Bethlehem point closest to Jerusalem, and yet above the primary dust and smog (that generally settles upon the first 200 feet of a civilization and makes the air tan or brownish as one looks down across a valley or plain of it), it seems to me. 

9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.  (KJV)

    9)    Then they, having heard and listened to the king carefully – intently

(continued and) passed through – departed.

And behold, look and see; the luminous body – the star

which they saw – beheld – observed – watched

in the rising sun – in the dawn – in the East

preceded before and led them forth until, coming,

it stood up above / over and upon

where the little child was.  (AWPR)

10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. (KJV)

    10)      Then seeing – beholding – observing the luminous body / star,

          they rejoiced with great – abundant

           joy – delight – gladness,

          with very much eagerness.  (AWPR)

11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.   (KJV)

     11)                     And coming into the house / building, ¹

         They saw – beheld – observed the little child

         with Miriam / Mary the mother of Him.

         And falling down prostrate they adored – showed obeisance to –

         worshiped Him.

         And opening the treasures put – set – stored of them,

         they brought up alongside with / next to – near to Him

         gratuitous – generous  gifts of

         gold and frankincense and myrrh.  (AWPR)        

       

    

12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.  (KJV)

    12)                     And having been addressed

         in a very straight-forward business-like warning – oracle

         by a dream that they should not go back again – return

         up alongside with Herod,

         through another of the same kind of way – highway – route

         they departed back again into

         the country – land – region – territory of them.²   (AWPR) 

13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.   (KJV)

    13)           Then they, having left – having departed back again:

          behold, look and see;

          an angel / messenger of (the) LORD

          shone – gave light / illumination – appeared

          down in a dream to Joseph, uttering definite words – saying,

              ‘Rise (from sleep and sluggishness) – Rise up!

               take up and seize the little child and the mother of Him,

               and hurriedly flee – escape quickly  into Egypt;

               and be you in that place there

               until I shall speak to you:

               for Herod is at the point of – is about to look for and strive to find

               the little child, to kill – put to death – destroy Him.’

               (AWPR)

14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:  (KJV)

     14)                     Then he  rising up (from sleep and sluggishness)

          Took up and seized – snatched up 

          The little child and the mother of Him by night,

          And departed back again into Egypt.³

          (AWPR)  

15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.  (KJV)

    15)        And he was in that place there until

           the end – completion (death) of  Herod,

         in order that would be fulfilled that spoken

         under the LORD through the prophets,

         laying down definite words saying – speaking,

            ‘Out of Egypt I have called / summoned forth

              The Son of Me.’

         (AWPR)

16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. (KJV)

     16)          At that time then,  Herod (upon) seeing –beholding that

          he was deluded – deceived – played the fool

          under – by the Magi,

          (he) was provoked into a great wrath – indignation – rage.

          And sending forth [soldiers on his resulting orders],

          He took away in death – he murdered

          All the male children in Bethlehem,

          And in all the boundaries – frontiers – limits – region of it,

       From 2 years and downwards,

       According to the Time he diligently and accurately inquired

       From the proximity of

       [i.e., that Herod posed to a group presented before him

         who were also far enough away to converse in whispers secretly

          among themselves]

      The Magi.   

                        (AWPR) 

     17)  Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,  (KJV)

      17)      Then at that time was fulfilled – accomplished – completed

                  that definitely uttered / said  

                  under – by – through Jeremiah the prophet

                  saying,

           (AWPR)      

18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.  (KJV)

    18)         ‘A voice – A sound

           Shone forth –toned forth

           [and would echo in the recurring recollections of the minds

            of those who heard it]

           in Rama was attentively heard – listened carefully to:

        loud wailing and grievous weeping with tears,

        and much (tormented – sorrowful) bewailing;

        Rachel grievously weeping with tears for the children of her,

        And certainly not willing / certainly not having the

        will – desire – purpose

        to have called to the side of – to be aided or comforted

        because they certainly were not.’

        (AWPR)

Comment:  The tomb of Rachel, wife of Jacob, who died in giving birth to Benjamin (cf. Genesis 35:16-19), was and is located in the region that is now the city of modern Bethlehem.  Benjamin was called Ben-Oni “son of I / son of me”, which some have mistranslated as “son of my sorrow”.  However, Jacob affirms it was “son of I / son of me” when he renamed the child as Ben-Yamin “Son at my Right Hand”.  Indeed, Jesus / Yeshua would eventually be known to humanity as “the son at the Right Hand” of GOD the Father Almighty.

19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, (KJV)

     19)    Then Herod

          having come to his end – having expired / completed / died;

          behold, look and see: an Angel of (the) LORD

          down in a dream gives light – shines – appears

          to Joseph in Egypt,

          (AWPR)       

20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.  (KJV)

     20)        Speaking with definite words – saying,

             ‘Rising up (from sleep and sluggishness).

              Take up – possess – seize – take along

              the little child and the mother of Him,

              and pass through into (the) Land of Israel:

              for – because those seeking – striving to find

              the soul of / the life of   the little child

              have died (by natural means).’     (AWPR) 

21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. (KJV)

      21)      Then he [Joseph] rising up,

          took up – seized and took along – snatched up

          the little child and the mother of Him,

          and came forth publicly into (the) Land of Israel.

          (AWPR)

22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:  (KJV)

     22)      Then, hearing attentively and hearkening that Archelaus

          reigns upon Judea  against / in place of – in lieu of /

          in substitution as a successor of 

          Herod the father of him,

          he [Joseph] feared and trembled with fright and terror

          (so as to run away) [rather than]  to go there in that place:

           Then, down in a dream,

           being addressed

           in a very straight-forward business-like

           order - response - warning – oracle,

           he [Joseph]  departed back again into the [sea – waters

           of the] sides – parts – coasts.⁴

           And behold, look and see;

           The heavens to him were opened,

           And he saw – beheld – observed (it was) the Galilee.

           (AWPR)

23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. (KJV)

     23)      And having come forth publicly,

          He dwelt in a permanent dwelling / he resided

          Into a city – protected settlement called Nazareth;

          So as to accomplish – make full – complete – fulfill

          That spoken – foretold through the prophet:

                 ‘He shall be summoned forth / called Nazarene.”

          (AWPR)

Disclaimer:  The Alternate Word Pictures with Reiterations (AWPR) translation should be used as a Bible Study Aid only, and it is recommended that a direct literal translation or the King James Bible be used for regular and ecclesiastical purposes, and that the AWPR be used in association only as a Bible study aid so as to help the reader / user in their Bible Studying to clarify context and Scriptural Intent.    THE AWPR is my translation carefully done from the Koine Greek Scriptural Texts.  Thanks.  -- Brianroy

End-notes: 

     1.      The events of the Magi arriving is AFTER the events listed in Luke Chapter 2.  Finding Mary and Jesus the angelically announced Messiah in a manure filled stall, it is not a stretch in any way that the Shepherds (who possibly were raising their flocks primarily  in the valley of Achor, south of Jericho – Isaiah 65:9-10, before proceeding round about to Jerusalem through the south via Bethlehem) could easily have used sheep as payment for someone or the Inn itself to take Miriam and her baby in out of doors.  Judaism often places an emphasis of the relationship of child and mother, and of common decency.  A trade (for example) of 7 fat sheep for eating, and perhaps a lamb without spot or blemish for trade or sacrifice for the Temple would have been more than sufficient payment.  There is absolutely no justification for any relocation of the event to Nazareth or anywhere else.  In fact, the events of both the Shepherds and the visit by the Magi would have preceded the actual day of circumcision of the little child Jesus, meaning the visits by the Shepherds in Luke 2 (written in A.D. 50) and that of the Magi in Matthew 2 (written between June of A.D. 55 and the early fall of A.D. 56 at the latest), both were completed within the first 8 days of Jesus birth.   

     2.      The Highway to Israel from Babylonia would have been via:  Accad, Mari, Tadmor, Damascus, Capernaum, Jericho, Jerusalem, and points along that route.

The exit taken by the Magi away from Herod, would likely have been south from Bethlehem to the road that passed from Kadesh Barnea (around the southern part of the Dead Sea traveling East then North through Edom on the King's Highway) to Rabboth-Bene-Ammon, then due east to Dumah, and from Dumah to Babylonia.

     3.      “Departed back again”  is the most accurate translation possible for the Koine Greek Word of this verse, which is “anechoresen” – the aorist indicative active of anachoreo.  This means that Joseph, although of the House of David, was a Jew who was previously living in Egypt and for some time had made his home and livelihood there.  Most likely that home was in Alexandria, and the use of the aorist indicative active of anachoreo in the way it is presented in this verse suggests that is where Mary also had spent some time as the wife of Joseph upon her marriage to him.  It also gives cause for a working hypothesis as to part of the reason why Mark took his Gospel to Alexandria after the death of the Apostle Peter on June 29, 57 A.D., and founded what would be the Coptic Church before his own death in the 8th year of Nero in A.D. 62 (just 5 years after that of Peter’s death in Rome).  There must have been some sort of familiarity and testimony that joined Joseph by family and (Mary and the LORD Jesus to that city later, albeit briefly) as a city of refuge away from and out of Herod’s jurisdiction and influence.

     4.       Joseph, it seems to me, most clearly took the little child / baby Jesus and the mother of Him out of Egypt by ship back to Israel.  They probably first embarked to Joppa, heard the news of Archelaus, and then took the journey to the next stop of Caesarea (Song of Solomon 2:1) on the coast of Samaria and entered through the plain of Sharon.  Prophecy related to Sharon in the Old Testament informs us that Joseph then would have proceeded by land up to Mount Carmel (Isaiah 35:1-2) before turning aside to Galilee, so as to appear to enter it from an origin in the north and avert suspicion as having actually come from the south. 

            MERRY CHRISTMAS!