The Magi, likewise referred to as the (Three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings were, in the Gospel of Matthew and Christian tradition, a group of prominent foreigners which checked out Jesus after his birth, bearing presents of incense, myrrh and gold. They are regular numbers in traditional accounts of the nativity events of Christmas and are a fundamental part of Christian custom.
According to Matthew, the only one of the 4 Canonical gospels to mention the Magi, they came "from the eastern" to prayer the "master of the Jews". The account does not discuss the number of people "they" or "the Magi" refers to, the three presents has actually led to the prevalent presumption that there were 3 males.
Traditional nativity scenes depict three "kings" going to the baby Jesus on the night of his birth, in a manger accompanied by the guards and angels, but this must be understood as a creative conference permitting both separate scenes of the Adoration of the Shepherds on the birth evening and the later Adoration of the Magi to be combined for benefit. The solitary scriptural account in Matthew simply provides an occasion at an unspecified point after Christ's birth in which an unnumbered party of unnamed "sensible men" visits him in a property, not a stable, with only "his mother" mentioned as present.
The Magi are widely referred to as smart men and masters. Words magi is the plural of Latin magus, borrowed from Greek magos, as utilized in the original Greek content of the Gospel of Matthew. Greek magos itself is stemmed from Old Persian magus from the Avestan magauno, i.e., the religious caste right into which Zoroaster was born (see Yasna 33.7: "ya sruye pare magauno´"="so I could be listened to beyond Magi"). The term refers to the priestly caste of Zoroastrianism.
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