Why is Jan. 6 called Three Kings Day? The Bible doesn’t say the number of wise men who visited Jesus, and the Bible doesn’t say that the wise men were kings. People assume that there were three wise men, since they gave three gifts. My dad (a former ELCA pastor who attends an LCMC church) said that, when he was in seminary, he learned that there were 15-18 wise men.
I don’t think it really matters how many there were :)