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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Wise men translates a Greek noun which originally referred to Persian priests who were experts in astrology and in the interpretation of dreams. But the word may also be used in a derogatory sense of “magician” or “charlatan,” a meaning which it has in its only other New Testament occurrences outside Matthew’s nativity narrative (Acts 13:6, 8). Matthew most likely has Babylonian astrologers in mind. “Astrologers” (NAB, NEB, Phps) is perhaps the nearest technical term, but in light of its intended
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