The author of Matthew's Gospel did not use the term 'wise men', he said that magi followed a star from the east, and even then, he still does not say there were three of them.
The magi were priests of the Zoroastrian religion which the Jews had encountered during the Babylonian Exile. So, the 'wise men', or magi would have come from Persia or Babylon (Iran or Iraq in modern terms) where Zoroastrianism was practised.
John Shelby Spong (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. Matthew, by having the priests come to worship Jesus, wanted to show that even the priests of this great religion looked up to Jesus.
In more recent times, the Zoroastrian connection became less important, and the priests began to be called wise men. Historically, the wise men were a literary fiction.
The gospel tells us nothing further about the magi after this. We could not expect to find more information about the wise men from other sources:John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus)says that a
mong people he knows in New Testament circles, the universal assumption is that the magi were not actual people.
Matthew was clearly writing Christian midrash.
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There were no wise men came from France , it is said all three wise men came from the east.
The Three Wise Men were - according to tradition - Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar.
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There were no oils given at all by any of the three wise men.
The three wise men, "The Magi".According to Christianity, the three wise men followed the star to Bethlehem. The three wise men traveled to witness the birth of the boy called the son of God.
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Because the term "three wise men" or "the three magi" refers to the three wise men (or kings) mentioned in the Holy Bible as having come from the Orient to Bethlehem to see Jesus, and to pay him homage.Another answer:Scripture only specifies "three" regarding the gifts the wise men presented. The account in Matthew 2:1-16 never says how many MEN there were.
The three wise men brought gold, myrrh and frankincense for the baby Jesus.
The guide for the three wise men were the pillar of cloud in the day and the star at night.
We usually speak of three wise men or Magi but Scripture does not say how many there were. There were three gifts given by these men; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.