Faithful Writers

If you were trying to fabricate a clean, respectable Messiah story, you would never choose pagan astrologers as your first witnesses. And yet that’s precisely the detail Matthew keeps, which makes it one of the strongest arguments that the story wasn’t invented.

The Magi aren’t just a Christmas detail to gloss over; their appearance in Matthew reveals a sweeping story of faith, prophecy, and God’s reach far beyond Israel. These men didn’t arrive out of curiosity — they came to worship.