who were the 3 wiseman of the bible?

Question

who were the 3 wiseman of the bible?

Answer 1

Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar. The names of the Magi derive from an early 6th century Greek manuscript in Alexandria.

Answer 2

The Bible does not say there were 3 wisemen. The Bible states that there were wise men from the east. No number is given. The idea of 3 wisemen came from the 3 gifts that were presented to the Christ child. You can read about them in Matthew, chapter 2.

Answer 3

We know there were some wise men who came to worship Jesus but that occured after Mary and Joseph were living in a house and not at the place where Jesus was born.

We know they brought three gifts, but we don't have any idea how many there are since the Bible does not tell us.

The Bible also does not tell us their names.

Those who tell you they know are guessing.

Pastor Art

Answer 4

The names of the Magi are as uncertain as is their number. Among the Latins, from the seventh century, we find slight variants of the names, Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar; the Martyrology mentions St. Gaspar, on the first, St. Melchior, on the sixth, and St. Balthasar, on the eleventh of January (Acta SS., I, 8, 323, 664). The Syrians have Larvandad, Hormisdas, Gushnasaph, etc.; the Armenians, Kagba, Badadilma, etc. (Cf. Acta Sanctorum, May, I, 1780). Passing over the purely legendary notion that they represented the three families which are descended from Noah, it appears they all came from "the east" (Matt., ii, 1, 2, 9). East of Palestine, only ancient Media, Persia, Assyria, and Babylonia had a Magian priesthood at the time of the birth of Christ. From some such part of the Parthian Empire the Magi came. They probably crossed the Syrian Desert, lying between the Euphrates and Syria, reached either Haleb (Aleppo) or Tudmor (Palmyra), and journeyed on to Damascus and southward, by what is now the great Mecca route (darb elhaj, "the pilgrim's way"), keeping the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan to their west till they crossed the ford near Jericho. We have no tradition of the precise land meant by "the east". It is Babylon, according to St. Maximus (Homil. xviii in Epiphan.); and Theodotus of Ancyra (Homil. de Nativitate, I, x); Persia, according to Clement of Alexandria (Strom., I xv) and St. Cyril of Alexandria (In Is., xlix, 12); Aribia, according to St. Justin (Cont. Tryphon., lxxvii), Tertullian (Adv. Jud., ix), and St. Epiphanius (Expos. fidei, viii

Answer 5

I don't think that they were actualy given names in the bible but the link I've added says that they are tradionally called Gaspar, Balthasar, and Melchior.

I also found a Wikipedia page on the Magi which mentioned the three wise men.

Answer 6

In Christian tradition the Magi, also known as the Three Wise Men, The Three Kings, or Kings from the east - although is it not said in the Bible how many Magi there really were - are sometimes considered to be Median, perhaps Iranian Zoroastrian priests, who were also proficient in astrology from Ancient Persia. The Gospel of Matthew states that they came "from the east to Jerusalem" to worship the Christ, "born King of the Jews". According to Matthew, they navigated by following a star which came to be known as the Star of Bethlehem. As they approached Jerusalem, Herod tried to trick them into revealing where Jesus was, so that he might be put to death. Upon finding Jesus, the Magi gave him an unspecified number of gifts, amongst which were three highly symbolic ones: gold, frankincense and myrrh. Because these three gifts were recorded, it is traditionally said to have been three givers; however, Matthew does not specify how many wise men came from the east.

-WIK

Answer 7

The bible doesn't give the number, or the names, it just says "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,..." Mt. 2:1

Answer 8

There were a group of wise men or "magi" who came from Babylon (Persia) and brought 3 different types of gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh.

It has been speculated by some Bible scholars that they had knowledge of the coming Messiah passed down to them from the time when Daniel was in charge of that order.

Daniel 2:47 The king said to Daniel, "Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery." 48 Then the king placed Daniel in a high position and lavished many gifts on him. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and placed him in charge of all its wise men.

Answer 9

Noone knows. They don't know that there is 3 either, they only assume that since there is 3 gifts. It never explicitly states the number of wisemen in the bible.

Answer 10

Pardon the phonetic spelling.

Melkiore
Balthazar
Gaspar