Epiphany

Ahh, Epiphany. That weird day in January, where it’s socially unacceptable to keep up your Christmas Decorations anymore (although, let’s face it, most of us are already fed up with them through Advent, and they’re lucky to still be up for Christmas).

And, let’s not forget all the weird pictures of three Kings with a baby.

If you read the accounts carefully, it’s much more likely that Jesus was a young child. Assuming the Star appeared when He was born, which is ultimately what started the Kings’ journey. All we really know about these Kings, are that they came from the East, and there isn’t actually an exact number specified, just the three named Gifts.

There is further evidence that Jesus was older, later in the Chapter (Verse 16), as Herod orders ‘all the boys two years old and younger’ to be put to death.

But, then again, they may not have even been kings, as traditionally, the term ‘Wise Men’ was used. It is possible that a lot of the text has been lost in translation, or, then again, maybe we were never meant to know who the Kings were, or how old the Child was?