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at any time, anything, anywhere for Jesus, because he is so worthy. As we read this pas*age, we need to understand who the magicians from the east were. magician is a Persian term for a priestly clas*. of sages specialized in astrology, medicine and natural sciences; and who would naturally be interested in any. historically, it is very probable that they were familiar with the writings of Daniel, who acquired great notoriety as wise e. interpreter of dreams in the Persian court of Nebuchadnezzar. even so, they would also have known Daniel's prophecy of the. seventy weeks of the years recorded in Daniel 9: 24-27 .. this remarkable prophecy established the general period of time of the coming of the messiah by indicating that it would be 483 years after a. Persian ruler issued an edict to rebuild Jerusalem. The magicians throughout this period of time probably had. I have been counting the years since the Jews had been sent from Babylon to rebuild Jerusalem, and therefore. they knew the approximate period of time in which the Messiah would be born .. as we read these verses, they seem to imply that the star of Bethlehem appeared only to magicians in the East, that. probably they were from the Persia area, or the current Iran. there is no biblical record of anyone else observing the star of. the star could have been what the Jews called the shekinah, that is, a physical manifestation of the glory of. God in the form of a supernatural brightness. they knew that no ordinary star could do what he did and many also. they as*umed that the star was an angel or some other entity that God had created for this specific occasion .. shekinah, it is a word that does not appear in the bible, but the concept clearly appears. the Jewish rabbis coined that expression.