The biblical account. The story of the Wise Men, also called Magi, following the Star of Bethlehem is found only once in the ...

The Star of Bethlehem supposedly led the three wise men to Jesus. iStock . Astronomer Michael Molnar points out that "in the east" is a literal translation of the Greek phrase en te anatole, which ...

Giotto Scrovegni’s Adoration of the Magi depicted the Star of Bethlehem as a comet. If Matthew’s wise men actually undertook a journey to search for a newborn king, the bright star didn’t ...

However many wise men there were, and however they got to Bethlehem, the Bible tells us they arrived just after the birth and found the baby Jesus in a manger, right? Not quite. Matthew 2:11 states: ...

Two thousand years ago, wise men of this world weren’t lucky enough to have GPS. In the Christmas story, then, the wise men chose to follow a star to navigate their way to Bethlehem—but ...

The three wise men, or three kings, are traditional figures in every Nativity set — one king on a camel, one kneeling at the manager and one standing with a gift in his hand.

To understand the Star of Bethlehem, we need to think like the three wise men. Motivated by this "star in the east," they first traveled to Jerusalem and told King Herod the prophecy that a new ...

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