Title: Wise People Still Seek Christ!
Author: Marvin Patterson
Text: Matthew 2:1-13
A lady lost her handbag in the bustle of Christmas shopping. It was found by an honest little boy and returned to her. Looking in her purse, she commented, "Hmmm.... That's funny. When I lost my bag there was a $20 bill in it. Now there are twenty $1 bills."
The boy quickly replied, "That's right, lady. The last time I found a lady's purse, she didn't have any change for a reward."
Body:
We come to the study of the Wise Men, who are mysterious but wonderful! They seem to come from nowhere, and show up at King Herod's Palace, looking for another king! This all gets Herod's attention and he wants to kill the little baby! Notice verse one!
2 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
These wise men traveled for two years to get to the young child Jesus, and when they got to the area, the star that they had been following vanished, and they were in trouble, not knowing where to go from here! This all happened when Herod was the King of the Jews! Herod was a wicked, jealous man, who literally killed a wife and a son whom he thought would be a threat to his throne! In was to this context that the wise men came! There may have been more than three wise men, but there were at least three because of the gifts that were given!
Bethlehem. The town is five mi (eight km) S of Jerusalem. Herod the king. This was Herod the Great, whose family, though nominally Jewish, was in reality Edomite. He was king, with Roman help, from 37 to 4 B.C. He built the Temple in Jerusalem that Christ knew. magi. These wise men from the east were experts in the study of the stars. Tradition says that there were three and that they were kings, but we do not know that for certain. -Ryrie Study Notes
John McArthur gives us the following information concerning the wisemen,
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Author: Marvin Patterson
Text: Matthew 2:1-13
A lady lost her handbag in the bustle of Christmas shopping. It was found by an honest little boy and returned to her. Looking in her purse, she commented, "Hmmm.... That's funny. When I lost my bag there was a $20 bill in it. Now there are twenty $1 bills."
The boy quickly replied, "That's right, lady. The last time I found a lady's purse, she didn't have any change for a reward."
Body:
We come to the study of the Wise Men, who are mysterious but wonderful! They seem to come from nowhere, and show up at King Herod's Palace, looking for another king! This all gets Herod's attention and he wants to kill the little baby! Notice verse one!
2 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
These wise men traveled for two years to get to the young child Jesus, and when they got to the area, the star that they had been following vanished, and they were in trouble, not knowing where to go from here! This all happened when Herod was the King of the Jews! Herod was a wicked, jealous man, who literally killed a wife and a son whom he thought would be a threat to his throne! In was to this context that the wise men came! There may have been more than three wise men, but there were at least three because of the gifts that were given!
Bethlehem. The town is five mi (eight km) S of Jerusalem. Herod the king. This was Herod the Great, whose family, though nominally Jewish, was in reality Edomite. He was king, with Roman help, from 37 to 4 B.C. He built the Temple in Jerusalem that Christ knew. magi. These wise men from the east were experts in the study of the stars. Tradition says that there were three and that they were kings, but we do not know that for certain. -Ryrie Study Notes
John McArthur gives us the following information concerning the wisemen,
Vinc ...
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