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The visit of the wise men is described in Matthew's Gospel, which tells of them indirectly causing the young family to flee from Bethlehem to Egypt and remain there until King Herod died. The story of the wise men could not have fitted into the nativity account in Luke's Gospel because in that story the young family travelled from Bethlehem to Jerusalem a few weeks after the birth of Jesus, and then returned peacefully to Nazareth in Galilee.
According to Matthew, the wise men must have arrived a good deal less than two years after the birth of Jesus, because when Herod realised that they were not returning to him, he ordered the slaughter of all boys under two years old. Matthew does not provide any information to place the visit more accurately in relation to the birth of Jesus.
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∙ 13y ago
The Bible does not specify the exact time frame of the arrival of the wise men after the birth of Christ. However, it is commonly believed that they arrived within two years after his birth based on the account of King Herod's orders to kill all boys in Bethlehem under the age of two.
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∙ 14y agoJohn Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus) says that among people he knows in New Testament circles, the universal assumption is that Matthew's magi, or wise men, were not actual people. They did not arrive for the birth of Jesus at all. Bishop Spong says that Matthew was clearly writing Christian midrash.
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∙ 11y agoAbout 2 years if you are talking about them visiting baby Jesus.
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