Monday, November 16, 2009

The three kings. Please this is not intended to be sacrilegious, irreverent or facetiousor ?

The three kings travelled a very long way to arrive in Bethlehem the night Jesus was born. Does the bible give any indication of how they knew of this event other than 'we have seen the star in the east .....

The three kings. Please this is not intended to be sacrilegious, irreverent or facetiousor ?
There is no evidence they arrived the night He was born. That is a teaching from drama programs. If fact there is evidence to the contrary. When Joseph and Mary went to make an offering in the temple, the offering was turtle dove. That is what poor people gave. So some time after that the wise men came.





2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem


2 and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."





11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.





21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived.


22 When the time of their purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord


23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord"),


24 and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: "a pair of doves or two young pigeons."


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