Gallery One

The Magi

The vision of my painting, in my own impressionistic style is to depict the excitement of the journey that they would take.

The king to the right is holding an ancient parchment of MICAH 5:2 " But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from old, from ancient times."

The prophet Micah had predicted the Messiah's birth in Bethlehem some 700 years earlier. In MATTHEW 2 verse one, The Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, " Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? " Verse 2 adds a detail that has baffled and intrigued Bible scholars and astronomers for over 2,000 years: " We have seen his star in the east, and have come to worship him."

Somehow the Magi saw beyond the present and into the future and in deep faith - they worship Him. They saw that this child would one day rule the world and they were not ashamed to fall on their faces before Him.