Magi – Priests in Zoroastrianism and the earlier religions of the western Iranians.
This word never appears in Scripture. It is a fabrication of Religion.
Magi, from Latin magus, is of Persian origin. The earliest known use of the word magi is in the trilingual inscription written by Darius the Great, known as the Behistun Inscription.
The Catholic Church introduced this word into their corrupt version of a bible, replacing God’s words “wise men” in Matthew 2 … and the Christian world has adopted it as if were Scripture; it has become Presumed Public Knowledge.
Included in their false teaching is that there were three wise men, based on the statement of the three gifts in Matthew 2:11. In Scripture, there is no statement as to how many “wise men” there actually were. Men being plural, there were at least 2, but there could have been hundreds.
They have further embellished their lie by proposing that they represented the three known continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa (based on their 3-gift/3 wise men assumption). From a wide assortment of names suggested for the Magi, those that eventually prevailed were Gaspar (or Caspar), Melchior, and Balthasar. This embellishment contradicts Scripture wherein it states “from the east” (Matthew 2:1): Europe is north of Israel, and Africa is south of Israel.
Another false teaching is that when they found Jesus, he was a baby in a manger in Bethlehem of Judaea (which is Bethlehem Ephratah) … that is false. When the “wise men” finally found Jesus, he was a “young child” back home in Nazareth (Matthew 2:11).
Being a “young child”, not an infant, already talking, and likely already been walking. Jesus was about 2 years old, based on the Matthew 2:16, Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
See also Child, Damsel, Infant, Lad, Presumed Public Knowledge