Was reading the Christmas story again this morning and noticed something that had never occurred to me before. Both the shepherds and the wise men went back to their normal lives after meeting and worshiping baby Jesus. In Luke it says "The shepherds went back to their fields and flocks", and in Matthew, talking about the Wise Men, "...when it was time to leave, they went home another way."
We don't know whether they kept in touch with Joseph and Mary over the years. Did they every see Jesus again? Did their lives change? I would have thought that having come to the realization that this was the Son of God, they would have been reluctant to leave Him and go back to their routines. But I guess Bethlehem's makeshift maternity ward had strict visiting hours!
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