The Magi

Today we return to our study of the Four Gospels and the cast – i.e. the vast array of characters whose lives intersect with the life of Jesus Christ. After Jesus was born, a rapid succession of events unfold that are packed with meaning. We’re not told too much about the first 30 years in the life of Jesus Christ (the four Gospels are not strictly biographies in that way).

But we are given some information about the days after that first Christmas and as we look at these events, we’ll find that almost everything recorded here in Matthew’s account is significant not only setting the course for the whole story that’s to come but really alerting us to the whole nature of the what Jesus Christ has come to do…of who He is and of what it means to be His follower and a member of His movement.

So let’s:
#1 Meet the Assemblage of Characters
#2 Make the Unifying Connections
#3 Move in the Alternative Kingdom