The more we know about the Old Testament, therefore, the more we will track with the Gospel accounts of Christ’s life. Edward Sri is a theologian, author and speaker.

They came. They saw. They gifted. That's about all we know of the foreign visitors who traveled to Bethlehem to see the infant Jesus. The scene ingrained in the public imagination -- a stately ...

Christmas Day may be Dec. 25, but it’s not the end of Christmas story. In many Western Christian traditions, there are 12 days of Christmas, culminating around Jan. 6, known as the feast of the ...

The whole episode with Daniel and the magi should feel like biblical déjà vu. Another famous Old Testament king had a penchant for keeping his court packed with wise men, astrologers, and ...

We learn from the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament (Daniel 2:10) and other historical writings that the Magi were members of a priestly group descended from a tribe associated with the Medes ...

The star led the Magi to Jerusalem, “as we are always taken to Jerusalem—because we must encounter the Scriptures of Israel,” says David Neuhaus, S.J. “It is from the Scriptures of Israel ...

That’s why, for example, Matthew often includes references to the Old Testament. But the coming of the Magi challenges that Jewish focus. For one thing, the Magi were foreigners, pagans ...

Their prophetic entrance contrasts with the portrayal of two Magi in later New Testament passages: Simon Magus tried to buy magic powers from the Apostle Peter (Acts 8: 9-24) and at Paphos, in ...

We all know the image. Baby Jesus in the manger. Around him, shepherds, animals, angels and three wise men: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Two of them are white, one of them Black. Above them ...