In the Gospel of Matthew it states, “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem” (2:1). The original Greek term that describes these men is magos, which was then carried over into the Latin magi (plural form of magus).
According to Fr. William Saunders, the word has four possible meanings.
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