What star did the three wise men follow?

Answer 1

We cannot know since the New Testament record is silent on this. We could speculate that they used the 'ship of the desert' the camel. This is how they are usually depicted, but there is no mention of this since the focus is on Jesus. Nor, incidentally are we told that there actually were three, only three gifts. There could have been two, three, four or even more.

Answer 2

The star that led the wise men, or kings, to Jesus could not have been any of the stars familiar to us today. No known star could actually lead men to the city of Jerusalem, and then turn around and lead them to the town of Bethlehem. And certainly no star in recorded history could point to the actual house in which Jesus lay. It had to be a very special star.

Historians have noted that there was no new star or unusual celestian event that appeared in the sky around the time that Jesus would have been born. However, there was a star that appeared in the mid-60s of the first century CE, long after the time of Jesus, but shortly before Matthew's Gospel was actually written. This star caused widespread interest in the Roman Empire and was seen as a sign from the gods, although even it could not have stopped over a single house. Since Matthew's Gospel was written within twenty years of this event, it is considered possible that its author was inspired by that star and the stories that grew up around it.

Answer 3

This question involves a confusion of themes. The shepherds form part of the narrative of Luke's Gospel, whose author knew nothing about the star in Matthew's Gospel.

From all the records kept by scribes in Palestine, Egypt, Rome, Greece, Persia and even China, historians have been unable to identify any star that the wise men of Matthew's Gospel could have followed. Ian Wilson (Jesus: The Evidence) says the hard reality is that Matthew offers insufficient historicity for anyone to be confident that there was a star at all.

Answer 4

The wisemen only followed one star....

I have heard it referred to as the northern star.

Answer 5

From the East......Think about it: they were from the East, so they actually traveled to the West, making it the WESTERN STAR, NOT the Eastern star.

Answer 6

North Star
They followed a bright star in the sky that had never been seen before(It was acutally Jupiter and Saturn in one line)

Answer 7

The shepherds did not follow the star to find the baby Jesus. An angel told them how to find Jesus. It was the wise men who followed the star.

Answer 8

A plane landing at Jerusalem airport!!

Answer 9

there e was john, Richard and paddie