The Journey of the Magi – Pastor Austin Hix

The Journey of the Magi

Matthew 2:1-12 (ESV)

Isaiah 60:1-6 (ESV)

Psalm 72:9-14

Daniel 5:11

Seeking, Finding, Returning

All this was a long time ago, I remember,

And I would do it again, but set down

This set down

This: were we led all that way for

Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly

We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,

But had thought they were different; this Birth was

Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,

But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,

With an alien people clutching their gods.

I should be glad of another death.