the house. In the wake of this spectacular phenomenon, there could be no doubt that the newborn baby in this house was the one whose birth had been proclaimed previously in the eastern sky (cf. v. 2). Matthew 2:11 recounts what happened in the aftermath of the Magi’s observation of the Star standing over the place where the infant Messiah was: “And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures,