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Originally Posted by testallthings
But before considering this question, there is another one. Were the magi "misled by their human concept" (footnote 2.2) to go to Jerusalem?
In the same note it is stated that, "The Jews had a mental knowledge in dead letters concerning Christ, whereas the magi received a living vision concerning Him." But after that they were mislead. It is really so?
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I doubt it had anything to do with their "human concept". My theory is that it could have been as simple as they were passing through Jerusalem on their journey and were hoping that someone could provide them with a specific location.
Verse 9 says this:
When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was.
So to me, it doesn't even seem like they knew their final destination until after stopping in Jerusalem.