At Christmas, we remember the wise men who followed a star to Bethlehem ... and the text implies the first sighting was at the time of Jesus's birth. The Wise Men arrive in Jerusalem from the ...

They followed the star until it stopped over the place where ... of Matthew referring to the Old Testament and showing how Jesus has fulfilled it. The Magi have a symbolic role to play in this ...

A few weeks – or perhaps even months - after the birth of Jesus, Matthew records the events surrounding the visitors from the east. He refers to them as the ‘Magi’, meaning ‘wise men’.