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What is Epiphany? 5 things every believer should know

By CP Staff

4. Was the “star in the East” actually a comet? 

Spoiler alert: the so-called Star of Bethlehem might not have been a star at all.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, the object that “went before’ the Magi ultimately “came to rest over the place where the child was” (Matthew 2:9).

Theologians have long debated whether the object was actually a comet or even the birth of a new star, known as a supernova, according to the Biblical Archaeological Society.

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