Christmas in Newtown arrived on the heels of over two dozen funerals. Makeshift memorial candles and holiday lights blurred together on the village green. Children buried. Dreams shattered. Too ...

Herod then gathers his own Magi (Matthew 2:4 ... We may never know exactly what the Wise Men saw. However, the story aligns with what we know about ancient Magi and their interest in celestial ...

In Luke, there are no wise men, no Herod, no slaughter, no star. The angel appears not to Joseph, but to Mary. And it is not magi who come from afar to pay a visit, prompted by a star, but local ...

Herod was upset and called the chief priests and teachers of the law and asked them “Where will the Messiah be born?” They told him Bethlehem had been predicted in prophecy. Herod asked the ...

The Gospel taken for the Epiphany is from Matthew 2:1-12 and is unique to Matthew’s Gospel as it is known as the Kingdom Gospel. The Magi represent the distant lands and peoples to whom ...

Matthew notes how the holy family fled to Egypt to escape Herod. The Christian festival of Epiphany is celebrated 12 days after Christmas, on 6 January, and commemorates the visit of the wise men ...

They had to ask. Herod the Great, King of Judea, felt threatened when the Magi—wise men from the East—arrived in Jerusalem asking, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?