Give an account of the birth of Christ as related by one of the Magi
Give an account of the birth of Christ as related by one of the Magi
It was a seemingly typical night; my colleagues and I were gazing at the stars in our homeland of Persia, as we do regularly. Let there be no mistake, we are well educated men and we are experienced astrologers, we know the night sky and how it wondrously changes through the seasons. We knew what arrangement of stars to expect on this particular night, but what we saw was something extraordinary! We stood in awe of an outstandingly bright and beautiful star revealed to us in the west sky. We were compelled. There was no doubt whatsoever that this was something quite special- we had to follow it. Being in the Magi, we recognised the significance of such an inexplicably tremendous star as being a signal of the birth of a great man. We may not be Jews by religion, but we had heard of the Messianic prophecies made by Jewish prophets and couldn’t help but relate them to this astonishing astrological appearance.