Insights Blog - Church of the Resurrection Matthew 2: 1-12 Merry Christmas! Christ is born! The star announces Christ’s birth that turns the world upside down. The star above the manger signals that nothing will be the same, that God-with-us breaks into our score-keeping world with radical mercy and love. Matthew 2 tells us that it was the “magi from the east” who saw the star. Why didn’t everyone see the star? Why did it take foreigners who were not even Jews to point it ou