Archive for December 28th, 2022

Christmas Break 2022

I’m on holiday this week, so no real blog post.

I will take this time to mention that around here, we don’t put the wise men at the Nativity, because they didn’t arrive until a couple years after Jesus was born. But I think you should be allowed to have the wise men at your Christmas display if you note they are the wise men from two years ago. Then you get into all sorts of time travel logistical problems, such as shouldn’t the baby Jesus then be the toddler Jesus, and how can you have the baby Jesus and the toddler Jesus in the same place? Maybe it’s best just to keep the Wise Men apart from the manger to show the time distance that way.

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem

Matthew 2:1