"Athens’ Odeon of Herod Atticus hosts its final Athens Epidaurus Festival before a 3-year restoration. Explore the theater’s ...

The Messiah was born in Bethlehem in Judaea during King Herod’s rule. The Magi are also called the Wise Men. Does anyone know the Wise Men’s names? Yes Caspar (not Casper the ghost ...

In the Book of Matthew, the magi stopped at Herod’s palace on their way to Bethlehem, and the king asked them to let ... but traditional celebrations put their visit 12 days after Christmas.

Those words, in a tremendous sermon by Lancelot Andrewes that King James I heard on Christmas Day 1622 ... On the other hand, Matthew includes the visit of the magi, Herod’s plot, the escape to Egypt, ...

The Magi first visit Herod, thinking the local king would be happiest about “the newborn king of the Jews.” Herod sends them on under the pretense of gaining information for him but really to ...

From a Greek word meaning "manifestation," Epiphany sometimes commemorated Jesus's baptism, sometimes his birth, and sometimes the visit of the Three Magi ... commemorated King Herod's massacre ...

The Gospel of Matthew tells how the Magi visit Jerusalem to seek guidance as to where the king of the Jews has been born; King Herod directs them to Bethlehem and asks them to return to him and report ...

Plays performed on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec. 28) invariably commemorated the story of King Herod ordering the ... that the story of the three Magi bestowing gifts to their sovereign ...

And it is not magi who come from afar to pay a visit, prompted by a star ... sorcerers from the east, King Herod of the Jews. For Luke, it is a common-folks miracle. It is ordinary shepherds ...

One key reference scholars refer to is the life of King Herod the Great of Judea who was ... In the Gospel according to Matthew, the three Magi seek Jesus by following 'his star in the East'.

However, he is also named in Matthew when we read about the visit of the Wise Men in Matthew chapter 2. As the wise men approached the place they believed to be where the new baby king would be, they ...

The visit of the Wise Men is an important part of the Nativity ... "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 ...