Wise men from the East

The wise men from the East or three kings are, within the Christian tradition, the three "wise men" (Greek: μαγοι, magoi) who came to worship Jesus Christ after his birth and gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh brought.

The visit of the wise men from the East in the Western Christianity to Jesus is celebrated on 6 January, the feast of Epiphany. The "adoration of the Magi" is a popular theme in religious art. The wise men are part of a traditional Nativity scene, in which they often are depicted together with camels .



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[hide] *Gospel of Matthew 1  ==Gospel of Matthew[ Edit] == The mention of the Magi in the Bible is relatively brief: only in the Gospel of Matthew is told of their worship. [1]  their exact origin, their names, even their number are not listed.
 * 1.1 Nazareth and Bethlehem
 * Legend 2
 * 2.1 Names
 * 2.2 description as "pointing"
 * 2.3 visit to Jesus
 * 3 see also

It is said that the wise men "from the East" to Jerusalem came because they had seen a star . From the appearance of the star they had laid out that the long-awaited, true "King of the Jews" had just been born. This was the then King of the Jews, Herod I, heard. Herod was very frightened of pretenders to the throne; He left even his own sons Alexander and Aristobulus[2]  (7 BC) and Antipater[3]  (4 BC) executed for fear that they would put him to the throne. The birth of another King was bad news for him. He summoned the scribes and priests to his court to learn where the Messiah would be born. According to the prophecy was that in Bethlehem. He then summoned the wise men and gave them the command to the newborn Messiah in Bethlehem to go look it up. He pinned the modes on the sleeve that he wanted to know where the child was so he could prove himself also paid tribute, but in reality he wanted to eliminate a rival.

The wise men saw while they were in Jerusalem again the remarkable star in the firmament. The Minister went them before and stopped above the place where the child resided. That way the wise men found Maria and the newborn Jesus. They fell on their knees and offered the child gold, frankincense and myrrh to.

God warned in a dream not to go back to Herod the wise finally. They therefore returned along another route back to their country. When Herod discovered that he had been deceived, he let all the boys in Bethlehem to kill the age of two years (the infanticide of Bethlehem) to ensure that the newborn King of the Jews, Jesus, predicted there would be at. However, Joseph was warned by God and had timely with Mary and Jesus the flight taken to Egypt. ===Nazareth and Bethlehem[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From the story of Matthew one might conclude that Joseph originally lived in Bethlehem . Archelaus Herod's successor nor because he trusted, he decided after the flight not to go back to Judea but to establish in his native Galilee, "in a city called Nazareth" (Matthew 2, 22-23). The history of the sages would then explain why Jesus was born in Bethlehem the religiously important but grew up in the relatively insignificant Nazareth.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Gospel according to Lucas tells a different story. According to this Gospel he already lived in Nazareth and Joseph stayed temporarily in Bethlehem because of thecensus. ==Legend<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the Gospel of Matthew we read that wise men from the East Jesus visited and brought him gifts. How many point out these were, doesn't say. Also not mentioned in the Gospel state how they were called.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Legend formation has the Matthew story expanded. For example, in the Western Christianity, there have been a series of traditions around the wise men from the East have developed which has no basis in the biblical story. In these traditions there are three wise men. This number of three was established on the basis of the number of gifts that they brought with them. In many Eastern traditions, there are not three but 12 point.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-britannica_4-0" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]

<p lang="en" len="44" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The three wise men in the Western tradition are: <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Kings represent the three continents then known and three ages of man. According to the legend were the Kings later baptized by Saint Thomas. They would then have become bishops in India. This legend can be traced back to a writer in the 6th century that are based on apocryphal sources.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5] ===Names<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The names Balthasar, Melchior and Caspar dating back to the middle ages. Around the 8th century they were called as Bithisarea, Melichior and Excerpta latina barbariGathasp in the Chronicle.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-britannica_4-1" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In other Christian traditions come other names for. For example, in the Syrian Christians are called the three wise men Larvandad, Goesjnasap and Hormisdas.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6] ===Description as "pointing"<span class="mw-editsection" len="363" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the Greek original text of the book of Matthew the wise men from the East with the word μάγοι (magoi) referred to. Because this word originally priests of theZoroastrian indicates,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  has been proposed that the wise men from the East such priests were.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]  there is an apocryphal book (the Arabic Gospel of the infancy of Jesus) stating that the wise men visited Jesus because his coming foretold by the Prophet Zoroaster .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  most scientific comments are of the opinion, however, that this connection can be made with certainty with the Zoroastrian,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  because the word μάγοι (magoi) more generally, is also used for people that future events might have foreseen, or for "magicians" and "astrologers".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  in addition, it is not clear whether ' the East ' indeed relates to Persia, or that it comes to Babylonia (which then usually on astrologers think)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  or Arabia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The name "three kings" comes from the 3rd century, probably as a fulfillment of the prophecy in Psalms 72: 11: "let all the Kings throw themselves down for him".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-britannica_4-2" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4] ===Visit to Jesus<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Gospel of Matthew says not when the wise men visited Jesus (Matthew 2: 16). However, in the Western Christianity is celebrated on 6 January, the feast of three kings.