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Matthew 2:1 says "Now after Jesus was born......in the days of Herod the King, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem" .....v.2 "for we have seen His star in the East......."

This is all the information The Bible gives to us on these wise men.

Scholars believe the wise men were from Babylonia or beyond: that they were Eastern astrologers (not modern Astrology). If this is so, they were most likely trained students of the stars which was somehow understood by them to be a sign of the birth of Jesus, v.2 ...."the King of the Jews."

The word "East" simply means in an easterly direction, east of Jerusalem.

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