What religion were the three wise men and how did they know how to find Chirst?
The account is found in Matthew. The so-called three “wise” men, according to Matthew are first of all unnumbered. Tradition says three but in truth we do not know how many there were. They are called Magi in the original Greek. That is to say, they were astrologers – as in stars. Remember that part. Religiously, they practiced the same religion as the pagan Babylonians. Tradition says the star led them to Christ. The Bible account says otherwise. Matthew 2:1-2 plainly reports that the Magi came – not to Bethlehem – but to Jerusalem inquiring about the one born king of the Jews. King Herod – a mortal enemy of Jesus –heard about it and got all upset. Herod then summoned the religious leaders and asked where the king of the Jews was supposed to be born. Herod, a nominal Jew, did not even know himself. When the religious leaders told him it was Bethlehem (verse 6), it was Herod who sent the astrologers to Bethlehem. Not until verse 9 do we read of the so-called “star” that they had seen b
