Timing of the Visit of the Astrologers to Y’shua: Y’shua was not an infant, but was about two years old, which is why Herod killed all the boys up to two years old,
Matthew 2.1. And after Y’shua was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold astrologers from the east arrived in Jerusalem 2. saying, “Where is the One Who has been born King of the Jewish People? For we saw His star in the east and we came to pay homage to Him.” 3. And when King Herod heard, he was disturbed and all Jerusalem with him, 4. and gathering all the high priests and scribes of the people he inquired from them where the Messiah was to be born. 5. And they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it has been written through the prophet:
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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.
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