Comments on: Today’s devotional: pondering the mystery of the Three Wise Men

By: julie

julie — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:48:57 +0000

if you go on youtube, someone has posted the film “the star of bethlehem” in pieces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRk4ZBCxO3s

the website for the film is http://www.bethlehemstar.com if you go there, all the footnoted facts are under “resources”

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:31:05 +0000

I have always heard that Matthew was written to the Jews, and so it includes the magi and the killing of the children in Bethlehem. The story of the magi not only teaches its Jewish readers that Gentiles were to be included in worship of the Christ, but that there was a reason the children of Bethlehem were butchered. The killings only made sense if you knew about the magi.

I always thought God operated on a “need to know” basis, but sometimes he tells us more out of His mercy. Someone somewhere needed to know about the magi – who knows, perhaps it was only a few people!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:56:59 +0000

The entire Christmas story, when read in little chunks of information and allowed to sink in, contains so much information and so many questions. Did Zechhariah communicate what had happened to him to others? Was Mary afraid of being stoned? How did the sheep respond to the angel and then angels? We picture the story so beautifully in our songs and stories, yet it is really a humbling and earthy thing. Amazing!