After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was.
9. But they, having heard the King, departed It is truly an instance of base sluggishness, that not one of the Jews offers himself as an escort to those foreigners, to go and see the King who had been promised to their own nation.
These wise men came so far to worship Christ, yet the Jews themselves would not stir a step to bid Him welcome. It might well have discouraged them to find Him thus neglected at home. But note this: we must continue attendance upon Christ though we be alone in it. Whatever others do, we must serve the Lord; if they will not go to heaven with us, we must not go to hell with them.
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Commenting on Matthew 2:9-12
When they had heard the king,.... With great care and attention, what he had told them of the birth place of the young child; the strict charge he had given them to search diligently for him, and then return to him with an account of the whole affair; and his expressions of respect to the new born prince, which they took to be said in...