This is regarding how old Jesus was when the wise men came to give him gifts. Some say he was an infant some say around 2 years old. Before you answer think about this...
If Jesus was 2 or 3 wouldn't King Harrod have had children up to age 4 or 5 killed instead of only two and under? Also the wise men followed the star to get to the city where Jesus was born. Couldn't God have had the star appear long before Jesus was born to lead the wise ment to his birth place? Please show verses in the bible to support your theory if you think he was 2 or 3 because I can not find anything that says He was that age, only that He was a child and as far as I know an infant is also considerd a child.
2006-08-20 10:01:06 · 8 answers · asked by hesjim57 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They (the family of Jesus) was there only for the census of Rome!
I think that Jesus would be well under 3 mo old at the time of the arrival of the wise men!
How soon can a woman with child born be able to travel? How long does it take to say I'm here for the census?
2006-08-20 12:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is an excellent question, but with ONE FLAW. That flaw is that God did NOT SEND THE STAR. Satan did. For one thing the Wise men, were not Wise men but "Mages, or Magus" celebrating the birth of the "King of the Jews," they knew he was to be born by the location of the stars in the heavens that "a new child in the royal house of israel was to be born." Their BIG MISTAKE was going to Herod first and informing him, THEN by following Satan's star to Bethleham to the place where Yeheshua (Jesus) and his family were located.
Yes, Herod would have been killing ALOT of children.
The reason people believe now that his age was 2-3 was because of the zero year problem; in that there wasn't one. This displaced the Gregorian calendar by at least 2 years, making the year -1 B.C. actually the year 2 B.C., then there is the issue of the "years" being off in general. By this I mean, the Gregorian calendar was the first to use 365.25 days per year, with a leap year to add an extra day every four years. Before this the accumulated days simply "disappeared" accuring missing time. Months simply went away. Not to mention bad record keeping and no way of veryifing "what day it was for decades after the fall of Rome" and the major empires. So, technically, it could have been off up to 5 years or more. We simply don't know. However, most "scholars" will say that christ was born between 1 A.D. & -5 B.C.E. So, this still leaves some disparity. Sorry.
All we do know is that the GIFTS OF THE Astrologers (aka Magi or Wise Men) we're "representative" being Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. Frankincense was used in Holy Rites. Myrrh is a constituent of perfumes and incense, was highly prized in ancient times, and was often worth more than its weight in gold. Myrrh was burned in ancient Roman funerals to mask the smell emanating from charring corpses. Myrrh was used as an embalming ointment and was used, up until about the 15th century, as a penitential incense in funerals and cremations.
The Magi was a tribe from ancient Media, who were responsible for religious and funerary practices.
The best known Magi are the "Wise Men from the East" in the Bible, whose graves Marco Polo claimed to have seen in what is today the district of Saveh, in Tehran, Iran. In English, the term may refer to a shaman, sorcerer, or wizard; it is the origin of the English words magic and magician.
2006-08-20 10:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was an infant, just born. If you read the account of His birth, you will find Mary was with child or pregnant on the way to Bethlehem and they had no room in the inn so that is why they went to the stable where she had Jesus. Now why would anyone want to wait a year or two before leaving the stable to go home when all they came for was the census? Just have to read your bible to see he was a baby, just born.
2006-08-20 10:11:00 · answer #3 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is unimportant what age Jesus was when the wise men came to bring Him gifts and when Herod had innocent children killed.
What is important in these stories is the fact that it was people from foreign lands that recognized that Jesus' birtth was an extraordinary event. Both the wise men and Herod recognized that this child was to be king of the Jews. The wise men came to give him homage. Herod wanted to kill Him. This is a foreshadowing of what was to happen to Jesus - He was rejected by His own people, but He came to be worshipped by the gentiles.
2006-08-20 10:24:41 · answer #4 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He would have still been an infant. King Herod had male children under 2 killed because he was afraid of Jesus, so it only makes sense to believe that he was under that age.
God Bless
2006-08-20 10:07:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to James Ussher's Annals of the World, a history of the world he compiled, Jesus was born in 5 BC in autumn and Herod killed everyone under two years of age that winter. So killing kids two and under would have included Jesus. And He was under two when the wise men gave him gifts.
2006-08-20 10:14:54 · answer #6 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is absolutely no historical record that shows that Herod ordered any kind of purge of infant children. Just another piece of fiction from the New Testament... but hey... wait a minute... it's ALL fiction.
2006-08-20 10:11:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
He was a new born baby, laying in a manger with the straw.
2006-08-20 10:08:55 · answer #8 · answered by Carol M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋