Where were the 3 wise men from that brought gifts to baby Jesus?

Answer 1

Jersey, Nevada, and Manhattan.

Answer 2

In Christian tradition the Magi, also known as the Three Wise Men, The Three Kings, or Kings from the east, are Zoroastrian judicial astrologers or magi from Ancient Persia who according to the Gospel of Matthew came "from the east to Jerusalem", to worship the Infant Jesus, whom they describe as the Christ "born King of the Jews". According to Matthew, they followed a star, and as they approached Jerusalem, Herod tried to trick them into revealing where Jesus was, but once they had found Jesus they left by a different route. According to Matthew, upon finding Jesus, the magi gave him an unspecified number of gifts, amongst which are three highly symbolic ones.

The word Magi is a transliteration of the Greek magos (μαγος pl. μαγοι), which is a derivative from Old Persian Magupati. The term is a specific occupational title referring to the priestly caste of a distorted form of Zoroastrianism, known as Zurvanism. As part of their religion, these priests paid particular attention to the stars, and gained an international reputation for astrology, which at that point was a highly regarded science, only later giving rise to aspects of mathematics and astronomy, as well as the modern practice of fortune telling going by the same name. A clearer indication of their astrological credentials is in the phrase translated in the King James Version of the Bible as enquired of them diligently, which is actually a Greek technical word referring directly to astrology, with no direct translation into English. Their religious practices and astrology caused derivatives of the term magi to be applied to the occult in general, namely this is the origin of the word magic.

**Considering some of the tensions within these forums, I find it interesting that the Christian Bible lends so much authority to astrologers (seen by contemporary Christianity as a spoof and heresy).

Answer 3

Here is one possible answer!

The star first appeared to them once Christ Jesus, The Messiah, was conceived in December of 5 BC.

They first saw the star while they were to the East of Israel.

They were in Babylon, directly East of Jerusalem.

From their Eastern perspective, the star appeared toward their Western horizon.

A lack of other distractions assured that people were quite familiar with the night sky.

A NEW star-like object appearing on the Western horizon would be noticed by those facing West.

Especially if the new star did NOT set below the Western horizon throughout the night.

And especially if the star had NOT first risen in the East, and had NOT traversed the entire sky at night to end-up on the Western horizon only near dawn.

God provided them time to prepare for a trip, and time to travel for several months.

God alerted them early enough for them to arrive in time for the birth of Messiah.


Read - Matthew, Chapter 2



The so-called "Kings" or "Wise Men" or "Magi" actually could have been ethnic Hebrew Rabbis, descended from the millions of Hebrews taken captive by Assyria more than 700 years previous, and taken captive by Babylon about 600 years previous; for only about 80 thousand Hebrews ever returned to eretz Israel (and only to the environs of Judea) back in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah.

The ethnic Hebrew population in the Persian-Assyrian-Babylonian region was much more than 100 times that of Israel's ethnic Hebrew population, and Samaritans peopled most of northern Israel.

More ethnic Hebrews were in the massive metropolis of Babylon, alone, than in all of Israel.

In the Diaspora, piously devout and faithful Hebrews faced toward Jerusalem in prayer.

During their pre-dawn and late evening devotions, Hebrews would have easily noticed a NEW celestial object that appeared toward the west, toward Jerusalem.

Babylon was a Rabbinical headquarters and had numerous Hebrew seminaries, a magnet for piously devout and faithful ethnic Hebrews.

Babylon's royal treasure house still possessed the objects looted from the Hebrew's Jerusalem temple more than 500 years earlier, including the Holy Scripture scrolls.

Babylon's Rabbis had been the source of Jerusalem's new copies of the Holy Scripture scrolls.

Babylon's Rabbis had been the source of the Talmud (Torah commentaries).

Who ELSE would care to study the Hebrew's Holy Scriptures ?

Who ELSE would care to travel to Jerusalem, for months, across desert terrain?

Who ELSE would know about (or even care about) a prophesied Hebrew Messiah?

Who ELSE would know about (or even care about) a long forgotten, unanticipated, Hebrew Messiah?

Who ELSE would care to search-out a newborn, infant, babe-in-arms "King-Of-The-Jews"?

Certainly NOT the bogus, Hebrew, religious hierarchy occupying (haunting) the Jerusalem Temple.

Answer 4

Usually thought to be Persia. The Bible just says ''the east''. However, they brought frankincense, and that is from Yemen, from the area close to the border of Ethiopia. So---------------.

Answer 5

It says they came from the east. If they were magi, then they would come from the area of Iraq and Iran (Persia and Babylonia). That is east of where Jesus was born, and also the land of origin of the magi.

Answer 6

From the same place as Jesus and the rest of the Bible - some dudes mind. Its fiction bro.

Answer 7

Sunny Acapulco.

Answer 8

We don't know how many of them there really were. But, since they brought three gifts, it is assumed there were three of them.

The Bible only says they were from "the east."

They were likely Zoroastrians from persia (Iran).

Answer 9

Luke 2:8 says they were of the same country and that they were shepherds..

Answer 10

Most theologians think they were Persians due to the way pictures of them have them dressed.