Give an account of the birth of Christ as related by one of the Magi

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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.

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                   Resolutely, we set off to the west, the direction we saw this wondrous sight appear. We took gifts with us to bestow upon the king we anticipated to meet. For hundreds of miles we travelled. The journey was tiresome and took weeks on end. It was clear to us that a birth of such prestige would be likely to occur in Jerusalem, the place of Judaism’s origin and the location of the palace, so this is where we went. On our arrival at Jerusalem we asked “Where is the baby born ...

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