Once we see how Matthew reads history, we are forced to ask a more uncomfortable question:
If God’s saving work repeats and deepens across time, where is it happening now?

Where is the Christ Child today?

Not sentimentally – but concretely.

Where is new life appearing that unsettles old power?
Where is hope being born in places that seem too small, too ordinary, or too marginal to matter?
Where are children – and others – whose vulnerability exposes the violence and fear that still shape our world?

And if there is a Christ Child, then there will also be Magi.

So where are they?

Who are the ones paying attention, reading the signs of the times, willing to travel far, willing to risk misunderstanding, willing to kneel before a truth that does not flatter their own power or certainty?

And where, if we are honest, does Herod still show up?

Where does empire still strike out against the innocent?
Where does fear disguise itself as order?
Where does control mask itself as security?

Matthew does not let us keep these characters safely locked in the past. He writes in such a way that they step out of the story and into the present.

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