Why did the wise men look for Jesus?

Answer 1

It never states in The Bible an exact date for when the Wise Men, or Magi, came to see Jesus.

It has often been assumed from a cursery reading of Matthew 2:1-2 that they came just after Jesus birth while he was still living in the stable. (By studying the Mazzaroth, the date of September 29, 2 BCE aligns with Venus passing through Virgo's mid body and 8 days later passing into Coma, or woman with child. This might give a good idea what the magi were watching for. Hum, the morning star passing through the virgin and then into coma, that is a huge clue. For those who do not know what Mazzaroth means, please continue reading.)

According to scripture, it was not the night He was born though. It was a few years later when Jesus was not a newborn anymore.

Matthew 2:1-2:

"Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." (There is no indication that there were three magi. There is only the mention of gold, frankincense and Myrrh. How this all got started, who knows.)

However, Matthew 2:11 states that they came to His house:

Matthew 2:11 "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him..." (We can figure out by Torah or those that follow Torah in those days about where the magi met Yahshua. Let's see, Mary had to go through her cleansing period, pun intended. This took 45 days. At that time, she could go with Joseph to the temple for the offering of the doves. This means that Yahshua (Jesus) was circumcised on the 8th day, and then 37 days later at the temple to offer the birds for His birth. They had no reason to go back to Bethlehem since that was Herod's idea to begin with. We know that the magi did not visit them during that time because Mary and Joseph offered up birds, not a larger offering. If the magi had visited, then they could and would have offered more. Bird offerings are for the poor. And so, the Hebrew train of thought is that the magi visited Jesus in Nazareth, at their home.)

And Matthew 2:16 states that Herod had all the children two years and under slain, according to the time he learned from the wise men. (This makes perfect sense now that Harold would kill any child under 2. Why? Because HaSatan, (Satan) also knows scripture and knew about the child to come from Bethlehem. But YAHWEH (God) is smarter than we are so He had the soldiers sent to the wrong town. The gold was used for the 2 year or more stay in Egypt and the frankincense and myrrh represented the two fold purpose of the gifts, one to continue life (gold) and the other to prepare a body for death. Jesus was meant from the beginning of life as a baby to die for us on a tree 30 years later.)

Matthew 2:16 "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men."

Therefore it is likely that Jesus was 1 to 2 years old, maybe 3. (Herod also knew of the purification process that women go through in Torah so he sent soldiers around the entire area to kill. This is the last big clue to figuring out that Yahshua was not in Bethlehem and could have been 1 or 2 years old by the time Harold found out and the Magi arrived. For closing, Josephus mentions an eclipse when Harold died. The last one was in 1 BCE. Shalom my friends)

Answer 2

The Bible is almost completely silent on this, and as there are no other records of the "wise men" (they did not, for example, return to the East and write about their legendary journey), we can only speculate.

The Bible actually says almost nothing aboit the wise men. What are "wise men," anyway? Astrologers? Scholars? Just very sensible people? And what is the East? Iraq? India? China? Japan? Through inference and studies of the original languages of the Bible (NOT English), especially the word "Magus" (plural "Magi"), it is speculated that they are pagan priests of a Middle Eastern culture. The Bible does not even give us a number; the "three" wise men are infered through the number of gifts they bear.

As to why? In the Bible, they go to Herod seeking a king, so they apparently knew what was up. But the book does not elaborate. So they went West because they saw a star and recognized it as an important event. How or why they recognized this, but no one else did, is unanswered.

Addendum

Relying on the Bible limits knowledge. Herodotos in his Histories deals with the Magi not speculatively but as a caste or tribe of the Medes, the members of which had certain religious and funerary duties in the Persian empire and in its official religion Zoroastrianism (from which Judaism and consequently Christianity gained its Resurrection doctrine). They were also dream-interpreters, which gave rise to the 'wise' tag. They also gave rise to the words magic and magician.

The Biblical story is one incorporated by the gospel writers from the array of religious stories available to them when they composed their accounts a few generations later, with the purpose of demonstrating the change of an era and a predestined cosmic event.

Answer

Read Daniel here you will find the reason why they came.

The wise men were of Babylon, Daniel was made the master of the magicians (KJV)Dan2:48

Daniel was told by Watchers times and understanding of times and Daniel had written the times on a scroll and as each generation was to come and go they were to keep the understanding of times from the scroll of Daniel to the coming of the Messiah Dan8:14,9:24-27

And when the time was fulfilled the wise men of that generation saw the Angle of the Lord and followed him to where the messiah was to see the Savior of his people so as to fulfill Gods word had they not come Herod would not have found out about the birth of the King and Satan would not have tried to kill him through Herod but this had to happen as it was written in the Word of God.

So the reason why they came was to declare the perfect timing of Gods Word to the whole world and that we have no excuse of this fact that YAHSHUA is the Messiah.

Answer

It means that there was and is extra-biblical validation of Jesus as the King of the Jews. It means the information about Jesus' birth was corroborated by religiously unbiased witnesses, separated from the birth event in space and time, and yet they knew about it... because they discerned it in the stars. The wise men were probably not practicing Jews. They came from a part of the Middle East where Zoroastrianism was practiced, as well as other religions. Yet, despite their non-Jewish background, they came with decidedly Jewish information they said they received from the stars, and they wanted to see this new little person of such great importance. That extra-biblical validation and their worship was worth more than all their material gifts combined. (By the way, the gifts they brought were loaded with meaning and significance too.) There is another point. The shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem said they received a birth announcement from angels. This too can be considered as a revelation from the heavens. According to Jewish law, the truth is established in the mouths of two or more witnesses. In this case, there were two heavenly messages regarding Jesus' birth and station sent to two disparate groups of witnesses [from extreme ends of the social spectrum], over two different "channels,"and they both bore witness to the same things: 1) Jesus was born. 2) He was the Saviour-King of the Jews. Without the wise men, the shepherds' would have been the sole testimony to the heavenly birth announcement, and therefore, by Jewish law, doubtable. And both the wise men and the shepherds found the child whose birth was announced from the heavens.

Answer 3

The "wise men" are mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew, and were described as magi, which were the priests of the Zoroastrian religion ofthe Persians. It seems that the author of Matthewsought to show that even the priests of that great religion would wish to worship Jesus. As the Zoroastrian connection became less important, the magi began to be referred to in English translations as "wise men" or even "kings".

John Shelby Spong (Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus) says that among people he knows in New Testament circles, the universal assumption is that the magiwere not actual people. He says that Matthew was clearly writing Christian midrash.

Answer 4

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The wise men, or magi (Latin, sing: magus) were priests of the Zoroastrian religion of the Persian empire, and appear only in Matthew's Gospel. To the author of this gospel, they represented that even followers of Zoroastrianism would wish to worship Jesus and were part of his kingdom.

Answer 5

According to the Bible itself, the shepherds came to see the infant, Jesus, in the manger of the stable where he'd been born (Luke 2:8-20). The 'wise men' (otherwise known as 'magi' or 'astrologers') found him after being directed first to Herod by the 'star' and then to Jesus who was, by that time, a child in a house some time later (Matthew 2:1-16 ), prompting Herod to have all the boys from 'two years old and under' killed in an attempt to destroy what he viewed as a rival 'king'(Matthew 2:16-18) just as had been prophesied by Jeremiah(Jeremiah 31:15+16).

Answer 6

Matthew's Gospel says that the "wise men" visited the baby Jesus to worship him.
The word originally used for 'wise men' is magoi or, in Latin, magi (sing: magus). The magoi were priests of the Zoroastrian god, Ahura Mazda ("Wise Lord"). Matthew was portraying the priests of this great religion as regarding the birth of a Jewish Messiah as a momentous event. By having them wish to worship him, Matthew was probably demonstrating that Jesus had dominion over even the Zoroastrians. In later centuries, the Zoroastrian connection became less important and the term "wise men" tends to be used in English translations.

Answer 7

In the original Greek manuscripts, the word translated here as 'wise men' was magi. The Magi were hereditary priests of the then-great Zoroastrian religion, based in Persia. The author of Matthew wanted to portray the magi as wanting to come and worship the infant Jesus.

Answer 8

The Biblical account does not give the names. According to some traditions, the men were Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar (or some variant on those names), but there's no real evidence for this (or even that there were specifically three of them), even if you assume that the Biblical narrative itself is basically true.

Answer 9

they where told a new leader was born. And Went to find this leader. They gave presents.

Answer 10

The three wise men came to visit Jesus because they heard that he was the new King, so they wanted to bring him gifts.