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Everyone in the world has to have a name other wise the world would be so confusing no one would know who is who!
The only people that we know the names of are Mary and Joseph. The shepherds came the night of His birth, but we aren't told their names. The magi (wise men) came later, and we aren't told their names either. The story is in Matthew 2 and Luke 2.
What_is_the_relation_between_a_ton_and_a_kilocalorieThe Internets are filled with wise people who already know the answer....
Only a handful, and if they do its only the wise who know it was because of a haunting.
We don't even know for sure that there were three, let alone what their names were, so the "meaning of their names" is, well, meaningless.
According to the most recent US census compiling a statistical frequency report of last names (which, unfortunately, was back in May of 1995), the surname "Wise" was listed as the following:Name: WISEPercent of population with the last name "Wise": 0.027Percent of population sample covered by "Wise": 33.247Number of last names more common than "Wise": 422See Related Links below for US Census information
Technically, we do not know how many wise men there were, we only know that there were three gifts of gold and frankincense, and myrrh. There could be a hundred wise men for all we know.
We really have no idea. We do not know how many shepherds came to see Jesus and we are not sure of how many wise men came to see Jesus. There were three gifts, but that does not tell us how many wise men there were.
People call people names because other people think that it is funny. other wise it actually hurts. they call each other names because it makes them feel good from all the stress.
AnswerMatthew's Gospel does not say how many wise men, or magi, went to Bethlehem, but traditionally there are portrayed as being three. However, John Shelby Spong (A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus) says that among people he knows in New Testament circles, the universal assumption is that the magi, or wise men, were not actual people. Bishop Spong is telling us that there were really no wise men, so from a historical point of view, that is the answer. But if you are planning a nativity scene, the usual number is three wise men.
None.