Matthew Chapter 2

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rookie

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When it comes to the wise men (Magoi, or Chaldeans),

I have found that they never travelled less than 600 - 1000 in a group.

I am wondering if someone else looked into this, since they are linked to the book of Chronicles, and Daniel as well, I know they go back in history, but am looking to see if I would be off base, or would such a big number of travellers be accurate?
 
It was probably a caravan, and the magi-probably had attendants, although even the "magi-contingent" of the whole caravan could have been only a fraction of a larger travelling party, with merchants, government officials on completely unrelated business, soldiers or mercenaries for protection, etc.

As for the wisemen themselves, there's no telling how many or few there were. But the whole retinue was probably more than three dusty dudes. Surely, it would have taken some noticeable delegation of babbling foreigners to get the attention of even as paranoid a guy as Herod.
 
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