Matthew 2:18-23

New International Version

The Return to Nazareth

¹⁹ After Herod died, an angel^(C) of the Lord appeared in a dream^(D) 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.”^(E)

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,^(F) he withdrew to the district of Galilee,^{(G) 23} and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth.^(H) So was fulfilled^(I) what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.^(J)