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The third Wise Man, Melchior, who was a Persian scholar and astrologer and also said to belong to the Zoroastrian faith (as indeed were the other two). Myrrh was meant to symbolise the fact that Christ would die young and be ressurrected.

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12y ago

Myrrh is a fluid used to embalm the dead,strange gift for a new born, most christians with half a brain see this as a reference to his reserection. showing that his reserection is much more important than his birth itself.

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13y ago

Completely unknown.

Moreover, they weren't "kings." They were Zoroastrian priests (according to early Greek translations). They were referred to as "magi", which was a priest.

The Magi are popularly referred to as wise men and kings. The word Magi is a Latinization of the plural of the Greek word magos (μαγος pl. μαγοι), itself from Old Persian maguŝ from the Avestan magâunô, i.e. the religious caste into which Zoroaster was born. These priests were practiced in Astrology. Given how closely this hews to sorcery, "kings" became the sanitized term once The Bible was translated into English.

There had no names and there is no mention of how many they numbered. There may have been two, three, four, or even fifty.

Later apocrypha gave them names but that was more than five centuries after the events depicted in the Bible and may have originated in a manuscript in Alexandria in the 6th Century. The Irish embellished the story three hundred years later.

Short answer: No one knows which priest gave what gift.

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12y ago

Myrrh is a reddish colored resin obtained from spiny shrub Commiphora myrrha in a similar manner to frankincense; not usually burnt but dissolved in oil and eaten or used as medicine and cosmetic (Ps. 45:8; Matt. 2:11). Myrrh was often used as a burial oil, and in Scripture foretells of Jesus' death.

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14y ago

the bible did not actually mentioned any of the three who gives myrrh

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13y ago

One of the three wise men.

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