The opening chapters of the Bible provide the context for what we celebrate at Christmas. Here, God's big story to save sinners through Jesus begins. We meet the villains - Satan and a humanity that had rebelled against God. We hear the curses - suffering, death and judgement. We rejoice in the hero - God preaches the gospel in Genesis 3:15 that a hero would come to undo the curse and reconcile men and women to God. It's because of this that we can rejoice with the angels who announce in Luke 2 that in the birth of Jesus a Saviour had been born.

In this passage, three groups of people are searching for Jesus. However, each search for Him for different reasons. Herod seeks to destroy, the religious leaders seek to ignore and the wise men seek to worship. Matthew calls us to respond as the wise men did: bow in submission before Jesus as our shepherd King.