“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 2:20 in context
Matthew 2:17–23
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Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
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“A voice was heard in Ramah,
lamentation, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she wouldn’t be comforted,
because they are no more.”
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But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
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“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”
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He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
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But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,
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and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.
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