Matthew 2:16-23

16 When 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.
17 Then 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.”[a]

The Return to Nazareth

19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
20 and 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.”
21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.
22 But 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,
23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.

Cross References 11

  • 1. ver 15,23; S Matthew 1:22
  • 2. Genesis 35:19
  • 3. Jeremiah 31:15
  • 4. S Acts 5:19
  • 5. ver 12,13,22; S Matthew 27:19
  • 6. Exodus 4:19
  • 7. ver 12,13,19; S Matthew 27:19
  • 8. Luke 2:39
  • 9. Mark 1:9; Mark 6:1; S Mark 1:24; Luke 1:26; Luke 2:39,51; Luke 4:16,23; John 1:45,46
  • 10. ver 15,17; S Matthew 1:22
  • 11. S Mark 1:24

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