Three Kings.
Wise men or the Magi, set out from Babylonia and followed the long awaited bright star. It took them one year to get to Jerusalem and they headed for the palace to seek the King of Israel.
There they met the mad, paranoid king Herod who was bemused of their arrival. But he had a hidden agenda as so many do!
The Magi eventually found Jesus and presented Him their gifts. But on leaving an angel told them to go a different way. Thus when Herod found out, he felt mocked. But his intentions was not to honour Jesus, rather to start a genocide, in which every male child up to two years old was murdered.
Matthew 2:1-11, 2:15-18, Genesis 35:16-20, Jeremiah 31:15.
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