he that is born] Or, the born king, &c. king of the Jews] Christ a poor childe laid in a crib, and nothing set by of his own people, receiveth, notwithstanding a noble witnesse of his divine and kingly power from strangers. his star] As God made known the birth of Christ to the Jews by an angel, Luke 2:9-10. so to the Gentiles by a new created star. They knew by it, that Christ was born, either because it stood over, or went toward Judea, or by some old tradition, or new revelation. in the east] In our own countrey. See on verse 1.