When word of their inquiry got to Herod, he was terrified—and not Herod alone, but most of Jerusalem as well. Herod lost no time. He gathered all the high priests and religion scholars in the city together and asked, “Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?”

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.

He called a meeting of the leading priests and teachers of religious law and asked, “Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?”

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

Herod called a meeting of all the leading priests and teachers of the law and asked them where the Christ would be born.

And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.

When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born.

So he called together all the chief priests and scribes of the people and [anxiously] asked them where the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) was to be born.

So he called a meeting of the Jewish ruling priests and religious scholars, demanding that they tell him where the promised Messiah was prophesied to be born.

and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.