The names of the wise men, Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, do not come from the Bible and did not appear in Christian literature until over five hundred years after the birth of Jesus.

“The Gnostics wrote expanded accounts of the birth of Jesus that highlighted the miraculous element and the exotic origins of the Wise Men.” Mr Longenecker went on to lay out the obstacles he ...

(The Conversation) — As Christmas approaches, Nativity scenes showing three wise men visiting the newborn Jesus are put up around ... and they foretell the birth of the Persian king Cyrus ...

The Gospel of Matthew tells that, not long after Jesus’s birth, three Wise Men appeared to bestow upon him gifts befitting of the Christ. Kings in their own land, the Wise Men got a memo from ...

But how many are aware that the Wise Men were not present at the birth of Jesus? Yet, these Nativity scenes certainly give the impression that they were. If we refer to the Biblical text ...

The faithful sing about the "Star of Wonder" that guided the wise men to a manger in the little town of Bethlehem, where Jesus was born ... horoscope and a royal birth. Molnar believes that ...

NARRATOR: Today we are going to learn about the birth of Jesus ... OISIN: Did anybody else go to see Jesus when he was born? *We see three wise men under a night sky. They point up to a bright ...

The story of the three wise men has been retold and embellished ... have been a lunar eclipse of Jupiter -- as heralding the birth of Jesus, the new “king of the Jews.” They set out on a ...

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