Yet was not the Lord born there; thus they knew the time but not the place of His birth. Jerusalem being the royal city, they believed that such a child could not be born in any other.
Or it was to fulfil that Scripture, “The Law shall go out of Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” [Isa 2:3] And there Christ was first preached.
Or it was to condemn the backwardness of the Jews.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).