Matthew 2:18-23

18 A voice has been heard in Rama, weeping, and great lamentation: Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

19 But Herod having died, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

20 Arise, take to [thee] the little child and its mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they who sought the life of the little child are dead.

21 And he arose and took to [him] the little child and its mother, and came into the land of Israel;

22 but having heard that 'Archelaus reigns over Judaea, instead of Herod his father,' he was afraid to go there; and having been divinely instructed in a dream, he went away into the parts of Galilee,

23 and came and dwelt in a town called Nazareth; so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, He shall be called a Nazaraean.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit. the seekers of.' The article and participle are used as a noun, characterizing the persons.
• [b]. Dia: see ch. 1.22; Jer 31.15.
• [c]. 'That that might be,' ch. 1.22; 'so that that should be,' as here; and, 'then was fulfilled,' ver. 17, are never confounded in the quotations of the Old Testament. The first is the object of the prophecy; the second, not simply its object, but an event which was within the scope and intention of the prophecy; the third is merely a case in point, where what happened was an illustration of what was said in the prophecy.
• [d]. Perhaps a reference to Isa. 11.1, the Hebrew for 'Branch' being Netzer.