馬太福音第2章
東方的訪客
1當希律王的時候,耶穌生在猶太的伯利恆。有幾個博士從東方來到耶路撒冷,說:
2「那生下來作猶太人之王的在哪裡?我們在東方看見他的星,特來拜他。」

Rogier van der Weyden – Pierre Bladelin Triptych – right panel (c.1445~8) – Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany (Public Domain, WikiArt)

The Journey of the Magi, from St. Albans Psalter, about 1130, Alexis Master. Tempera and gold on parchment. Dombibliothek Hildesheim(1140)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

James Tissot- The Magi Journeying (Les rois mages en voyage)(1886~94)Brooklyn Museum(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Windberg abbey church ( Lower Bavaria ). Rococo frescos ( 1755 ) at the ceiling by Franz Xaver Merz: Three Wise Men going to Bethlehem – detail.(Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license., Wikimedia Commons)

Leopold Kupelwieser – The Journey of the Three Kings (1825)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Ferenczy, Károly – The Three Magi(1898)Hungarian National Gallery (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Leonaert Bramer – Journey of the Three Magi to Bethlehem(1638~40)New-York Historical Society(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Magi enters Jerusalem – William Brassey Hole(1900s)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Anonymous: Three Wise Men – For Peace and Security(1941~5)National Archives at College Park, USA(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)
3希律王聽見了,就心裡不安;耶路撒冷合城的人也都不安。
4他就召齊了祭司長和民間的文士,問他們說:「基督當生在何處?」
5他們回答說:「在猶太的伯利恆。因為有先知記著,說:
6猶大地的伯利恆啊,你在猶大諸城中並不是最小的;因為將來有一位君王要從你那裡出來,牧養我以色列民。」
7當下,希律暗暗地召了博士來,細問那星是甚麼時候出現的,

James Tissot – The Magi in the House of Herod (Les rois mages chez Hérode) – (1886~94)Brooklyn Museum(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Anonymous – The Three Magi before Herod (15th century) Museum Musée National du Moyen Âge (Cluny), Paris (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

MS. Bern Bibliothek, Cod. 27, fol. 210v – King Herod and the Magi (13th century)(Christian Iconography)

Anonymous – The Three Magi Before King Herod – Chora Church (Kariye Museum) outer narthex
8就差他們往伯利恆去,說:「你們去仔細尋訪那小孩子,尋到了就來報信,我也好去拜他。」
9他們聽見王的話就去了。在東方所看見的那星忽然在他們前頭行,直行到小孩子的地方,就在上頭停住了。
10他們看見那星,就大大地歡喜;
11進了房子,看見小孩子和他母親馬利亞,就俯伏拜那小孩子,揭開寶盒,拿黃金、乳香、沒藥為禮物獻給他。

follower of Hieronymus Bosch – Adoration of the Magi (1500~50) Philadelphia Museum of Art (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Peter Paul Rubens – Adoration of the Magi(1628~9)Museo del Prado (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Peter Paul Rubens – Adoration of the Magi(1633~4)King’s College Chapel, Cambridge (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Peter Paul Rubens – Adoration of the Magi(1617~8)Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Peter Paul Rubens – Adoration of the Magi(1624)Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

James Tissot – The Adoration of the Magi (L’adoration des mages)(1886~94)(Brooklyn Museum)

Anonymous – The Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi(1600~30)Benaki Museum(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Fra Angelico & Fra Filippo Lippi – The Adoration of the Magi(1440~60)National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Edward Burne Jones – The Adoration of the Magi(1888~94)Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Giotto di Bondone – The Adoration of the Magi(c.1320)Metropolitan Museum of Art(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Diego Velázquez: Adoration of the Magi(1619)Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid Spain(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Sandro Botticelli: Adoration of the Magi(1476)Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Hans Memling – Adoration of the Magi(1470)Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Rembrandt – Adoration of the Magi(17th century)Göteborgs konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)
Ricardo André Frantz – Adoration of the Magi in the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.(2005)(Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license., Wikimedia Commons)

Hieronymus Bosch – Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi(c.1495)Prado National Museum, Madrid(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Anonymous – Icon exhibited at the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece.(1500~1600)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein – Das Plenarium oder Ewangely buoch: Summer und Winter teyl(1517)Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City(Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, Wikimedia Commons)
12博士因為在夢中被主指示不要回去見希律,就從別的路回本地去了。
逃往埃及
13他們去後,有主的使者向約瑟夢中顯現,說:「起來!帶著小孩子同他母親逃往埃及,住在那裡,等我吩咐你;因為希律必尋找小孩子,要除滅他。」

Daniele Crespi – Saint Joseph’s dream (circa 1620~30) – Kunsthstorisches Museum (Publich Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Antonio Balestra – Joseph’s dream (1700~3) – Scuola Grande dei Carmini (Venice) (Publich Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Gerard Seghers: Dream of Saint Joseph(c.1625~30)Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Philippe de Champaigne – The Dream of Saint Joseph (1642-3) – The National Gallery, London

Antonio Palomino: Saint Joseph’s Dream(c.1697)Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Corrado Giaquinto: Sueño de San José(c.1755~60)Museo Camón Aznar, Zaragoza, Spain(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Saint Joseph(c.1772)Saragossa Museum, Spain(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Stefano Maria Legnani: The dream of St. Joseph(1708)Museo Civico, Novara(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Vicent López Portaña: Joseph’s Dream(1805)Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Francisco Herrera the Younger: The Dream of Saint Joseph(c.1662)Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Bernardo Cavallino – Joseph’s dream (circa 1645) – National Museum in Warsaw (Publich Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Rembrandt – Joseph’s dream(1645)Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Germany(Public Domain, Wikimedia)

Rembrandt and workshop – Joseph’s dream(circa 1606~1669) – Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Publich Domain, Wikimedia Commons)
14約瑟就起來,夜間帶著小孩子和他母親往埃及去,

Albrecht Dürer – Seven Sorrows Polyptych:Flight to Egypt(c.1494~7)Alte Pinakothek, Maxvorstadt, Germany(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

The Flight into Egypt. Stained glass in a choir chapel, Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, Paris, France.(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Henry Ossawa Tanner – The Flight into Egypt(1923)Metropolitan Museum of Art(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

© José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 4.0 – Flight into Egypt – Capella dei Scrovegni – Padua(2016)(Wikimedia Commons)

Fra Bartolomeo – Rest on the Flight into Egypt(c.1500)Vescovile Palace(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Joachim Patinir – Flucht nach Ägypten(1515~24)Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Adam Elsheimer – The Flight into Egypt; The Rest on The Flight into Egypt(1609)Alte Pinakothek(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Jacob Jordaens – Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt(1647)Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States of America(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Die Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten(1594~6)Galleria Doria Pamphilj(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Philipp Otto Runge – Rest on the Flight to Egypt / Ruhe auf der Flucht(1805~6)Kunsthalle Hamburg(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Carl Spitzweg – Die Flucht nach Ägypten(c1875~9)Kurpfälzisches Museum (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Luc-Olivier Merson – Rest on the Flight into Egypt(1880)Museum of Fine Arts Boston(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Eugène Alexis Girardet – Flight into Egypt(before 1907)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

James Tissot – The Flight into Egypt (La fuite en Égypte)(1886~94)Brooklyn Museum(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Gentile da Fabriano – Adorazione dei Magi by Gentile da Fabriano; Scene of Flyght in Egypt – centre part of predella(1423)Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)
Nachalo XVII – Flight to Egypt. Begstvo v Egipet. (17th century)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Bedford Master – Toppling of the Pagan Idols (Flight into Egypt)(1423)Oblates of St. Joseph(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Anonymous – Flight into Egypt (detail of the icon Nativity, Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai)(12th century)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Edwin Long – Anno Domini (Flight into Egypt)(before 1891)(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)
15住在那裡,直到希律死了。這是要應驗主藉先知所說的話,說:「我從埃及召出我的兒子來。」

James Tissot – The Sojourn in Egypt (Le séjour en Égypte)(1886~94)(Public Domain, Brooklyn Museum)
屠殺嬰兒
16希律見自己被博士愚弄,就大大發怒,差人將伯利恆城裡並四境所有的男孩,照著他向博士仔細查問的時候,凡兩歲以裡的,都殺盡了。

Jacopo Tintoretto – The Massacre of the Innocents(c.1582~7)Scuola Grande di San Rocco(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Peter Paul Rubens – Massacre of the Innocents(c.1637)Alte Pinakothek, Munich Germany(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Matteo di Giovanni – Massacre of the Innocents(1488)Museo di Capodimonte, Naples(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Giotto di Bondone – Massacre of the Innocents(1304~6)Cappella degli Scrovegni(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Guido Reni – Massacre of the Innocents(1611)Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Léon Cogniet – The Massacre of the Innocents(1824)Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Nicolas Poussin – Le Massacre des Innocents(c.1626~7)Petit Palais, Paris(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

James Tissot – The Massacre of the Innocents (Le massacre des innocents)(1886~94)(Brooklyn Museum)
17這就應了先知耶利米的話,說:
18在拉瑪聽見號咷大哭的聲音,是拉結哭她兒女,不肯受安慰,因為他們都不在了。

Anonymous – Плачот на Рахела, фреска од Марков Манастир(14th century)Macedonian Encyclopedia, MANU, 2009, p.(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)
從埃及回來
19希律死了以後,有主的使者在埃及向約瑟夢中顯現,說:
20「起來!帶著小孩子和他母親往以色列地去,因為要害小孩子性命的人已經死了。」
21約瑟就起來,把小孩子和他母親帶到以色列地去;
22只因聽見亞基老接著他父親希律作了猶太王,就怕往那裡去,又在夢中被主指示,便往加利利境內去了,
23到了一座城,名叫拿撒勒,就住在那裡。這是要應驗先知所說,他將稱為拿撒勒人的話了。

James Tissot – The Return from Egypt (Retour d’Égypte)(1886~1894)Brooklyn Museum(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Anonymous – A sketch for Return from Egypt(1614)Kaluga Art Museum(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Sir Peter Paul Rubens – The Return from Egypt(Public Domain, Wikigallery)

Jacob de Wit – The Return from Egypt, also : Holy Family and Trinity.(1726)Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder, Amsterdam, the Netherlands(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Poussin, Nicolas – The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt(c.1628~38)Dulwich Picture Gallery(Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Nicolás Enríquez – The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt(c.1773)Metropolitan Museum of Art(Public Domain, THE MET)