The Return to Nazareth

(Luke 2:39–40)

19 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, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”

21 So [Joseph] got up, took the Child and His mother, and went to [the] land of Israel. 22 But when he learned that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And 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 spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”