Matthew 2:22

Matthew 2:22

20 ^asaying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who ^bsought the young Child’s life are dead.”

21 Then he arose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.

22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by God in a ^adream, he turned aside ^binto the region of Galilee.

23 And he came and dwelt in a city called ^aNazareth, that it might be fulfilled ^bwhich was spoken by the prophets, “He shall be called a Nazarene.”

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Warned in a dream (xrhmatisqeiv kat onar). He was already afraid to go to Judea because Archelaus was reigning (ruling, not technically king, basileuei). In a fret at last before his death Herod had changed his will again and put Archelaus, the worst of his living sons, in the place of Antipas. So Joseph went to Galilee. Matthew has had nothing about the previous dwelling of Joseph and Mary in Nazareth. We learn that from Luke who tells nothing of the flight into Egypt. The two narratives supplement one another and are in no sense contradictory.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 2:22:**

Luke 2:39
Acts 10:22
Acts 11:26
Acts 12:1
Romans 11:4
Hebrews 8:5
Hebrews 11:7

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