After Jesus
was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod,
Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is
the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in
the east and have come to worship him… they went on their
way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them
until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they
saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they
saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped
him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts
of gold and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in
a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country
by another route.
Matthew 2:1-2,9-12
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