The skit opens with a starry night in Bethlehem, Judea, the night Jesus was born, in year zero. A knock is heard on the door to Miriam and Joseph's home, and three people in cloaks walk in.

At Christmas, we remember the wise men who followed a star to Bethlehem. But what was the ... He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name" (KJV).