![]() ![]() “At Bethlehem in Judaea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet wrote: ‘Bethlehem in the land of Judah, you are by no means least among the rulers of Judah for out of you shall come a ruler to be the shepherd of my people Israel.’” He called together the chief priests and scribes of the Jews and asked them where the Messiah was to be born. After his birth astrologers from the East arrived in Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We observed the rising of his star, and we have come to pay him homage.” King Herod was greatly perturbed when he heard this, and so was the whole of Jerusalem. Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of Herod. ![]() ![]() The actual New Testament account of the Star of Bethlehem comes from the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew: We all know this carol as the story of the Star, which is fine-except for the fact that almost everything in it is wrong. What do we know about the Star of Bethlehem? The popular conception is summarized in the Christmas carol: It is also a mystery, involving not only theology and astronomy but also history and even astrology. Someone once observed, “The universe is composed of stories, not atoms.” The Star of Bethlehem is certainly a story, as is most of the Bible, first and foremost. ![]()
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