# Matthew 2

## Verse Summary

NIV2011 verse same as 1984 | 15 | 65.22%
NIV2011 verse same as tNIV | 6 | 26.09%
NIV2011 rejected tNIV, reverted to NIV1984 |  | %
NIV2011 verse verse is new | 2 | 8.7%

## Word Summary

NIV2011 words same as 1984 | 284 | 94.82%
NIV2011 changed words | 16 | 5.18%
NIV2011 removed words | 19 |
NIV2011 added words | 12 |

## Changes

| Result | NIV1984 | tNIV(2005) | NIV2011
2:2 | tNIV | and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.” | and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east when it rose and have come to worship him.” | and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east when it rose and have come to worship him.”
2:4 | tNIV | When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. | When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ Messiah was to be born. | When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ Messiah was to be born.
2:6 | tNIV | “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.’” | “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.’” | “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.’”
2:8 | NIV2011 | He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” | He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” | He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make a careful search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”
2:9 | tNIV | After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. | After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. | After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.
2:11 | tNIV | On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. | On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and of incense and of myrrh. | On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and of incense and of myrrh.
2:18 | tNIV | “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” | “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” | “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
2:23 | NIV2011 | and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.” | and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.” | and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: “He will , that he would be called a Nazarene.”