Matthew 2:19-23

The Return to Nazareth

¹⁹After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt ²⁰saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.” ²¹So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel. ²²But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee. ²³He came to a town called Nazareth and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.