The Celestial Object in Matthew

The magi understood the bigger picture. They could single out this object and understand what it was meaning because they knew the wider context. If you were just, if you weren't a magi, one of the magi, and you saw that thing in the sky, you wouldn't think anything of it. You don't really know exactly what you're looking at. And so as we transition to what this context was, the question is: Is there anything in the new testament that might give us that context? That would inform an ancient sky watcher that this particular object that's mentioned in matthew too marked the birth of a divine kingd. It's found in a passage that