The story of the wise men is given in Matthew. First of all, it doesn't mention three wise men, just "wise men". They came to Bethlehem to seek "The King of the Jews" when Jesus was a "young child". So, based on this, one could invisage a time between 1-10 years AD. There's an interesting story from Kashmir; Buddhist history talks about Yuz Asaf, a Buddhist leader who was born in Judea in the first century. Buddhists believe that their leader is a re-incarnation of an earlier leader. They discover the leader by reading astrological charts and prayer. The Kashmir Buddhists predicted the leader would be born in Judea and went to find him, so at some point in the first century, some Wise Men from the East arrived in Judea to tell a family that their recently born son (Yuz Asaf) was to be a religious leader. The story goes on that Yuz Asaf came to Kashmir as a young man (around 12 years old) for training then returned to Judea at the age of 30. Yuz Asaf came back to Kashmir a few years later with injured feet and hands, his grave is in Kashmir and, intrigingly, there is a carving of feet on the grave that show the marks of crucification.
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