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"But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,

who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,

from you shall come forth for me

one who is to be ruler in Israel,

whose coming forth is from of old,

from ancient days."

-The #Bible, Micah 5:2

written ca. 700 years before the birth of #Jesus the Messiah
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Marakesh 𓅦 2y ago

This is the passage that directed the Magi on where to find #Jesus.

> "Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, 'Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.' When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, 'In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:'"

–The Bible, Matthew 2:1–5

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Marakesh 𓅦 2y ago

Some three and a half centuries earlier the Magi had a different reaction when Alexander the Great was born. Plutarch relates that on the day Alexander was born, the temple of Diana at Ephesus was also burned. “All the magi who were then at Ephesus looked on the fire as a sign which betokened a much greater misfortune: they ran about the town, beating their faces, and crying, ' that the day had brought forth the great scourge and destroyer of Asia.'”

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