{"id":13622,"date":"2025-12-24T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=13622"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:28:45","slug":"following-the-star-to-bethlehem-who-were-the-magi-seeking-king-of-the-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=13622","title":{"rendered":"Following the Star to Bethlehem: Who Were the Magi Seeking King of the Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 The Book of Matthew in the Bible tells us the story of the Wise Men, the Magi, who came from the East to Jerusalem, asking, &#8220;Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who were these Wise Men from the East? Did they come from Babylon, now modern-day Iraq?<\/p>\n<p><em>CBN News\u00a0<\/em>explored the remarkable story and heard from experts about these Wise Men who followed the star that led to Bethlehem in Judea, near Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>You can see that story by clicking on the video below.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>***Please sign up for\u00a0CBN Newsletters\u00a0to ensure you receive\u00a0the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 The Book of Matthew in the Bible tells us the story of the Wise Men, the Magi, who came from the East to Jerusalem, asking, &#8220;Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?&#8221; Who were these Wise Men from the East? Did they come from Babylon, now modern-day Iraq? CBN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2426,2119,374,3969,604,2448],"class_list":{"0":"post-13622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jesus","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-jews","10":"tag-king","11":"tag-magi","12":"tag-seeking","13":"tag-star"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}