²⁰ After he had thought about it, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” he said, “don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. ²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus,^[a] because he is the one who will save his people from their sins.”

²² Now all this happened to fulfill what was declared by the Lord through the prophet when he said,

which means, “God with us.”

The Escape to Egypt

¹³ After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt,” he said. “Stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends to search for the child and kill him.” ¹⁴ So Joseph^[a] got up, took the child and his mother, and left at night for Egypt.

The Return to Nazareth

¹⁹ But after Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. ²⁰ “Get up,” he said. “Take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill^[a] the child are dead.”

²² But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, after having been warned in a dream. So he left for the region of Galilee ²³ and settled in a town called Nazareth in order to fulfill what was said by the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”^[a]