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A:The story of the magi ('wise men') is in Matthew's Gospel, which does not say just when they visited, but leave the impression that they probably came some short time after his birth. The passage in which King Herod sought to kill all the boys under two years old in the hope of killing Jesus, would mean that Jesus was securely less than two when the magi arrived, but how much less is open to speculation.

In an attempt to harmonise this nativity story with that in Luke, some place the visit at about two years after Jesus' birth, thus allowing time for the events in Luke to occur. This overlooks the problem that Luke indicates that the family never returned to Bethlehem, and in fact they had no good reason ever to do so. The best explanation is given by John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus), who says that neither birth story contains any historical truth. On that view, we need not concern ourselves about when the magi visited Jesus.

A:The Bible does not say WHEN the 'wise men'(astrologers) visited Jesus, only that by the time they found him, he was a 'young child' in a 'house' (Matthew 2:11), and no longer in a stable.
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