What Does the Bible Say About the Magi (Wise Men)?

[@forbiddenquest1972]

You are great at knowing scripture & communicating!!!!

[@DeezersPeig]

For God to have set up the universe the way He did, to have given order to the cosmos the way He did only make me worship Him more and only puts me in awe of Him even more! Jesus truly is the Son of God and I am just so taken by the infinite wisdom of who God is. And you know what it's a cause to have holy fear and regard towards Him even more, MY GOD!

[@bradeggerton]

Great expository lesson! Enjoyed it thoroughly! I'm actually teaching on it in sunday school this morning so you've given me some good material!

[@scarletcloth]

thank you for this clarification. Crazy how we have allowed traditions of the elders to cloud our eyes.

[@sika4981]

Great stuff.

[@gweems828]

great teaching thank you

[@harely56]

Thank you John

[@Your2Kind]

Good grief! This is an awesome teaching!

[@MrGetonyourbike]

Very good appreciated many thanks

[@ejehnkeiru9977]

Good

[@saberblade4315]

Absolutely your right. Can you make a video when was JESUS born? December was not possible during that time due to winter the sky was snowy and it was inpossible also to see the star in the sky.

[@SpiritandTruth]

Hey Saber thanks for your comment, We do have a video where John explores the question of when Jesus was born. Here's a link to that teaching: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJbXnWipaadjldE -Truth

[@yamcachol]

Thank you for these clarifications, but how do you know that the Magi came from Persia?

[@davidhiggins3012]

This is quite a few years ago but the Magi were astrologers from Persia which practiced Zoroastrianism. They were Persians. The Persian govt at that time is known to us as the Parthians since Rome named them that.

[@cheryldeboissiere7824]

Magi is a Persian religious term usually referencing Zoroastrian priests.

[@flickedbic]

When did the Shepherds let everyone know that that child was the Messiah?

[@RAAKHUdCOZMOPHYZIX]

THAT WAS AN INTERESTING INTERPRETATION OF THE MAGI NARRARATION. QUITE ENLIGHTENING... GOLD FRANKENSINCE AND MHYRR WERE THE THREE GIFTS ... DID U KNOW THAT THESE OBECTS WERE FUNERARY PROPS IN THAT DAY ?

[@DeezersPeig]

You have no idea how much insight this teaching brings. The fact that Daniel was head or over the Magi &taught them about the Messiah is HUGE! this just reveals how much God is n control, How He set up the seasons & times & how we're all effected by it just the same. Matt. 4:45 "To show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers [alike]."

[@doncoles7482]

Good one! So if you know this then you also know it was March 1st 7bc give or take a day that

[@VagabondRagamuffin12]

Do you have any resources to show that the Magi came from Parthia or is this just speculation? Also, Matthew says they were looking for a King. How do you know the Magi were looking for the Messiah? Wasn't the Messiah a Jewish figure?

[@zibarozibaro1875]

VagabondRagamuffin12 if you look at the ruins in Iran I can see on the walls of the ruins that ppl used to wear clothes just like that so yeah, there is a proof and besides that the word magi is the first word And all the rest like magic comes from this Persian word. Besides magic was a gift of zaroaster to zaroasterians and these magi are zaroasterians

[@RafaelArandas]

I thought astrology was condemned by the Jews, though?

[@johnhenry457]

Rafael Arandas The Magi were not Jews

[@joannafaith888]

Rafael Arandas Check out the book by Dr. James Kennedy... The Gospel in The Stars. Genesis 1, God created the heavens and earth. The original story (astronomy) is kosher. The enemy perverts it...astrology (using the stars and planets to control my life) is wrong. Creator God and the Bible leads and directs us.

[@ryanehlis426]

There is astrology where God set the stars and sun and moon for signs and seasons and then there is pagan astrology where people read into the stars meaning for there life or worship the sun and moon as God’s. It is not wrong to recognize God gives us signs in the heavens.

[@ophiuchus1116]

It stood over Bethlehem probably because of retrograde motion!

[@mark9531]

"48 days after birth of Jesus, family went to live in Nazareth," Unless you are a follower of the athiest Bart Erhman, the fact that one gospel has detail that another does not, aguments the other. It does not mean that either is untrue. The fact that the Gospels are synoptic does not require that all four read identically. I II Kings, I II Chronicles repeat a lot of the same basic stories of the Kings. The fact that they are not carbon copies of each other does not make either untrue