Matthew 2:19-23

Expanded Bible

Joseph and Mary Return

¹⁹ After Herod died, an angel of the Lord ·spoke [appeared] to Joseph in a dream while he was in Egypt. ²⁰ The angel said, “Get up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, because the people who were ·trying to kill [^Lseeking the life of] the child are now dead.”

²¹ So Joseph [^Lgot up,] took the child and his mother and ·went [returned] to Israel. ²² But he heard that Archelaus [^Creigned from 4 bc to ad 6] was now ·king [reigning] in Judea ·since his father Herod had died [^Lin place of his father Herod]. So Joseph was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he ·went [withdrew] to the ·area [region; district] of Galilee, ²³ to a town called Nazareth, and lived there. And so what ·God had said [was spoken; ^Cthe passive verb implies God as subject] through the prophets ·came true [was fulfilled]: “He will be called a Nazarene [^Ca person from the town of Nazareth; perhaps a reference to Is. 11:1, where the Hebrew word translated “branch” sounds like “Nazarene”].”