Wisemen

A lot of modern scholars will argue that the Wisemen wouldn't have arrived till two years after the event. You could conclude that from Matthew 2:16, but it is by no means a slamdunk. One thing is for sure they did not arrive on the night of Christ's birth. When they show up, the Child and His mother (note Joseph is absent, maybe at work) are in a house, not a stable; thus, the artwork of the Church, both East and West puts them at the cave or stable, which is surely not accurate. When the great 16th-century reformer of the church Martin Luther, engages the question, he opines probably fell sometime in the six weeks before the presentation in the Temple, which St. Luke records in his second chapter. No one knows for sure.

-Pr. Will Weedon