# Three "wise" men find Jesus

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 25, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wise-men-find-jesus/708126 "2014-12-25T00:37:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wise-men-find-jesus/708126/32 "2014-12-29T16:21:45Z")

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> [@CurtC](#):
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> How come? According to the book of Matthew, we just know that the magi arrived while Jesus was still a young child. Isn’t three or four years enough time to travel from Persia to Jerusalem?
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> ETA: I guess two years is the time frame that Matthew implies, because Herod slayed all the boys two years and younger. But still, two years is enough time to travel from Persia.

Given that the OP demonstrates all the theological insight of a manger scene in a store window, I believe the time frame calculation was in rebuttal of the idea that the Magi arrived while Yeshua was still in swaddling clothes.

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