[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Wise men? More like agents of Satan. Not so wise.***

Magoi or Sophoi! “Powerful ones” or “Wise ones.”

Dwayne Edward Spencer, in his books Word Keys which Unlock Scripture, says the Magoi were probably high ranking Jews of the dispersion still in Persia who recognized this as the time of the Messiah and came to Jerusalem looking for the Christ child.

[count-your-change]

The “star”, whatever it actually was, led them to Jerusalem and to thus to Herod. It was Herod that sent these wise men to Bethlehem, which seems odd that if they were high ranking Jews they would not know of the Jewish prophecies of where the Messiah was to be born.

Herodotus indicates they were the priestly class of diviners of the Medes.

They were thus attempting to locate the newborn child for Herod to murder so I stand by the description of them as agents of Satan.