loren green has that story. >> they've graced christmas cards and biblical art for centuries, an ancient story of nativity may shed light on the wisemen. >> we have a few references that other little legends about the wisemen, but this is the document that has, has really taken the matthew's story of the wisemen, just blown it up into this grand narrative. >> the revelation was written in an ancient language. the first to translate it into english, it's by all accounts, a fictional story written possibly as early as the third century. >> what's interesting about the revelation, it's not necessarily what it tells us about the wisemen, but christ and the star of bethlehem are the same thing. >> and that's significant because scholars looked for a natural explanation for the star. in the text, it seems that early commissions depicted the star as purely supernatural. that only the wisemen could see until it rested over