Herod called together all the chief priests and the teachers of the
Law and asked them, "Where will the Messiah be born?"

"In the town of Bethlehem in Judea," they answered. 
"For this is what the prophet wrote:

Bethlehem in the land of Judah,
you are by no means the east of the leading cities of Judah;
for from you will come a leader who will guide my people, Israel."

(Matthew 2:4-6)