Matthew
Chapter 2: 13-23
The Escape to Egypt
13When
they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he
said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell
you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." 14So
he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled
what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."
16When
Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders
to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in
accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17Then
what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
18"A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more."
The Return to Nazareth
19After
Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to
the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead."
21So he
got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place
of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew
to the district of Galilee, 23and he went and lived in a town
called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: "He will be
called a Nazarene."
