In having the Star go before the Magi to the very house where the infant Messiah was, God was, Matthew implies, intervening to confirm them in their sacred mission and enable them to complete it. The star’s presence at this point in the Magi’s journey makes for beautiful symmetry. Just as the Star had marked the start of their mission, so it also marked its conclusion. More than this, the Star itself was now pointing out the precise whereabouts on the earth of the child whose birth it had earlier