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The Nativity

The Magi

Three riders and a star that moves when they move and stands when they stand, hides in Jerusalem, and comes down over the house. Scroll to watch it.

When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him.

Matthew 2:1-2, as St John Chrysostom gives it

Lo, the star went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was.

Matthew 2:9, as St John Chrysostom gives it

For it had not even any course at all of its own, but when they were to move, it moved; when to stand, it stood, dispensing all as need required: in the same kind of way as the pillar of the cloud, now halting and now rousing up the camp of the Jews, when it was needful.

John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew VI.3