Matthew 2:2
Neutral key: nrf1:MAT.002.002
About the book Matthew Trend of this verse since 2000
Which lectionaries prescribe this verse
Bible text
“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
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Statistics
- 15 Verse-level uses Counting rule CR-BASE: every citation of this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 15 Explicit citations Counting rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE, as in the Top 100: only citations that name this verse.
- #1,136 Rank Rank 1,136 of 19,199 verses with explicit citations; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping Position 23,296 in the sequence prot66.nrf, New Testament
15 of the verse-level uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
Persons in this verse
No person of the Bible is linked to this verse yet.
Topics of this verse
The strongest topics first, by the votes of the OpenBible.info readers.
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Numbering in the versification systems
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse unit has the following labels (mapping release R8); labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations: 7 occurrences
- losung.net: Losungen archive: 7 occurrences
- Die Losungen (official yearly files): 1 occurrence
Occurrences
15 approved public occurrences in the profile official@2, newest first.
- Date
- Jun 26, 2026
- Cited as
- Matthäus 2,1-2
- Source
- Die Losungen (official yearly files), Die Losungen 2026 (Jahresdatei der Evangelischen Brüder-Unität)
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2026-06-26
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Translation
- Lutherbibel 2017
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Mar 6, 2022
- Cited as
- Matthäus 2,2
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Sonntag, 6. März 2022
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2022-03-06
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Dec 24, 2020
- Cited as
- Matthäus 2,1-2
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Donnerstag, 24. Dezember 2020
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2020-12-24
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Dec 27, 2011
- Cited as
- Matthäus 2,1-2
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2011
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2011-12-27
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Dec 4, 2008
- Cited as
- Matthäus 2,2
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2008
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2008-12-04
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Nov 29, 2007
- Cited as
- Matthäus 2,1-2
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Donnerstag, 29. November 2007
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2007-11-29
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 31, 2005
- Cited as
- Matthäus 2,1-2
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Montag, 31. Januar 2005
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2005-01-31
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Oct 15, 2003
- Cited as
- Matthäus 2,1.2
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2003-10-15
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1225 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- Matthew 2:2
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Thomas Aquinas
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1055 – Dec 31, 1126
- Cited as
- Matthew 2:2
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Theophylact of Ohrid
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Eastern Orthodox
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 836 – Dec 31, 908
- Cited as
- Matthew 2:1-2
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Catena Aurea by Aquinas
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Remigius of Auxerre
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0495
- Cited as
- Matthew 2:1-2
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Catena Aurea by Aquinas
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Pseudo-Chrysostom
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 340 – Dec 31, 425
- Cited as
- Matthew 2:2
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Jerome
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 344 – Dec 31, 407
- Cited as
- Matthew 2:1-2
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Homily on the Gospel of Matthew
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- John Chrysostom
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 260 – Dec 31, 345
- Cited as
- Matthew 2:2
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Writings of Eusebius of Caesarea
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Eusebius of Caesarea
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed: rule CR-BASE@1 / CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE@1, profile official@2, epoch 103
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – verse-level uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – explicit citations (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 103, published Nov 5, 2026, 1:15 PM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
prot66.nrf, mapping release R8- Rank
- As in the Top 100: explicit citations, highest first, over the verses with at least one; tied verses share a rank.
- Occurrences
- Approved public occurrences of the profile shown, with at least one passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. This page shows no Bible text. How we count