A Farewell to Bethlehem
Leonardo da Vinci, The Adoration of the Magi We Three Kings Background Music A FAREWELL TO BETHLEHEM © Prologue Narrator: Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Daniel served the Lord God all their lives, but unfortunately, they could not join their people returning from exile to the promised land. Six centuries after their captivity, however, their descendants, three wise men named Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, and their camel boy, Jimmy, arrive in the evening at an inn in Bethlehem after their audience with Herod the Great earlier that day. King Herod, being advised that the new Messiah King was to be born in Bethlehem, six miles south of Jerusalem, met secretly with the wise men to find out when the new king’s star they followed first appeared. King Herod told them to "Go and search diligently for the child;...