17. So what God had said through the prophet Jeremiah came true:
18. “A sound was heard in Ramah.It was painful crying and much sadness.Rachel cries for her children,and she cannot be comforted,because her children are dead.” Jeremiah 31:15
19. After Herod died, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream. This happened while Joseph was in Egypt.
20. The angel said, “Get up! Take the child and his mother and go to Israel. The people who were trying to kill the child are now dead.”
21. So Joseph took the child and his mother and went to Israel.
22. But he heard that Archelaus was now king in Judea. Archelaus became king when his father Herod died. So Joseph was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the area of Galilee.
23. He went to a town called Nazareth and lived there. And so what God had said through the prophets came true: “He will be called a Nazarene.”