Three wise men could have been... lasses!

[micko]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=4322803&section=news

The gist:

A Church of England committee revising the latest prayer book said the term "Magi" was a transliteration of the name used by officials at the Persian court, and that they could well have been women.

"Magi is a word which discloses nothing about numbers, wisdom or gender embodied in the term," a Synod spokesman told the Reuters persons after the revision was agreed by the Church's parliament.

In the 17th century King James bible, the gift-bearing visitors are referred to as "The Three Wise Men."

Now they are to be called just "Magi" and no longer gender-specific in the Anglican prayer book. SO THERE. Maybe the giveaway was the presents they brought.

[Jodus]

Good point. Not a baby Ireland kit in sight.

[Zenith]

They'd have kept the gold.

[Nexus6]

I've often wondered what happened to that Gold. You never hear of the pglam of Jebus buying a shit load of sweeties. Perhaps Joseph 'invested' it in a cross factory or something. Maybe the reason they had to flee to Egypt was that Joe had bet it all and then some on the blue chariot on the 3:30 from Antioch and had to do a runner or get his kneecaps nailed to the floor.

[Zenith]

I think he started up a vineyard on the side, but then your man grows up an devalues the whole industry.