Star of Wonder
Betsy Childs

Many of our nativity scenes symbolically show a star hovering a few feet above a stable. This star, though a recorded part of Jesus' early narrative, is a great mystery to us. We are told in the second chapter of Matthew that Magi, that is, pagan astrologers, saw the star and somehow divined from it that the king of the Jews had been born. Some have posited that these easterners may have been interpreting prophecies left over from Daniel's exile in Babylon. However, we really have no information about how the Magi connected the star with the king of the Jews, nor how it led them first to Jerusalem, then to Bethlehem. We also don't know how soon after the birth of Jesus the Magi's journey occurred.
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