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  2. Biblical Magi - Wikipedia

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    The King James Version translates "magi" as wise men; the same translation is applied to the wise men led by Daniel of earlier Hebrew Scriptures (Daniel 2:48). The same word is given as sorcerer and sorcery when describing "Elymas the sorcerer" in Acts 13:6–11, and Simon Magus, considered a heretic by the early Church, in Acts 8:9–13.

  3. Caspar (magus) - Wikipedia

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    Who the magi were is not specified in the Bible; there are only traditions. Since English translations of the Bible refer to them as "men who studied the stars", they are believed to have been astrologers, who could foresee the birth of a "Messiah" from their study of the stars. [14] Caspar is often considered to be an Indian scholar.

  4. Magi - Wikipedia

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    One of the non-canonical Christian sources, the Syriac Infancy Gospel, provides, in its third chapter, a story of the wise men of the East which is very similar to much of the story in Matthew. This account cites Zoradascht (Zoroaster) as the source of the prophecy that motivated the wise men to seek the infant Jesus. [30]

  5. Balthazar (magus) - Wikipedia

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    Since King Balthazar, in traditional pictorial representations from the Late Middle Ages, is often represented as a black person (as an integrating or cosmopolitan graphic symbol, in the tradition that the "wise men" or "magi" who worshipped Jesus in Bethlehem represented the peoples of the whole world), fitting in with this traditional icon ...

  6. Melchior (magus) - Wikipedia

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    Melchior was described by Bede in the 8th century as being "an old man, with white hair and long beard." [2] Melchior is also commonly referred to as the King of Persia. [2] Following the Star of Bethlehem, the Magi first travelled to the palace of Herod the Great, who then asked for the Magi to find the Child Jesus and report back to him.

  7. Matthew 2:7 - Wikipedia

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    In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared. The Novum Testamentum Graece ...

  8. Revelation of the Magi - Wikipedia

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    The work is largely an expansion of the story of the Adoration of the Magi found in the Gospel of Matthew.Modern scholars have divided the work into 32 short chapters: a short 2-chapter prologue; a first-person plural account of the Magi's journey in chapters 3–27; and an epilogue in chapters 28–32 where Judas Thomas visits Shir afterward as part of his missionary work to the East.

  9. Matthew 2:11 - Wikipedia

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    Matthew 2:11 is the eleventh verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.The magi, dispatched by King Herod, have found the small child (not infant) Jesus and in this verse present him with gifts in an event known as the Visit of the Wise Men.

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