Matthew 2:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

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  • Luke 2:39 : 39 So when Joseph and Mary had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
  • John 7:41-42 : 41 Others said,“This is the Christ!” But still others said,“No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? 42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
  • John 7:52 : 52 They replied,“You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”
  • Acts 9:13-14 : 13 But Ananias replied,“Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem, 14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!”
  • Gen 19:17-21 : 17 When they had brought them outside, they said,“Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!” 18 But Lot said to them,“No, please, Lord! 19 Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die. 20 Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.” 21 “Very well,” he replied,“I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.
  • 1 Sam 16:2 : 2 Samuel replied,“How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the LORD said,“Take a heifer with you and say,‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’
  • Ps 48:14 : 14 For God, our God, is our defender forever! He guides us!
  • Ps 73:24 : 24 You guide me by your wise advice, and then you will lead me to a position of honor.
  • Ps 107:6-7 : 6 They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. 7 He led them on a level road, that they might find a city in which to live.
  • Ps 121:8 : 8 The LORD will protect you in all you do, now and forevermore.
  • Isa 30:21 : 21 You will hear a word spoken behind you, saying,“This is the correct way, walk in it,” whether you are heading to the right or the left.
  • Isa 48:17-18 : 17 This is what the LORD, your protector, says, the Holy One of Israel:“I am the LORD your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go. 18 If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.
  • Matt 1:20 : 20 When he had contemplated this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
  • Matt 2:12-13 : 12 After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country. 13 The Escape to Egypt After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,“Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”
  • Matt 2:19 : 19 The Return to Nazareth After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
  • Matt 3:13 : 13 The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.

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  • Matt 2:11-17
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    11 As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

    12 After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.

    13 The Escape to Egypt After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,“Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”

    14 Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt.

    15 He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled:“I called my Son out of Egypt.”

    16 When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.

    17 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

  • Matt 2:19-21
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    19 The Return to Nazareth After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

    20 saying,“Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

    21 So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

  • Matt 1:20
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    20 When he had contemplated this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

  • Matt 2:7-9
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    7 Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.

    8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said,“Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”

    9 After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

  • Matt 2:1-5
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    1 The Visit of the Wise Men After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem

    2 saying,“Where is the one who is born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

    3 When King Herod heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him.

    4 After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

    5 “In Bethlehem of Judea,” they said,“for it is written this way by the prophet:

  • Matt 2:23
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    23 He came to a town called Nazareth and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.

  • Matt 4:12-13
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    12 Preaching in Galilee Now when Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, he went into Galilee.

    13 While in Galilee, he moved from Nazareth to make his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

  • Luke 2:3-4
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    3 Everyone went to his own town to be registered.

    4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.

  • Matt 1:24-25
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    24 When Joseph awoke from sleep he did what the angel of the Lord told him. He took his wife,

    25 but did not have marital relations with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named Jesus.

  • Luke 23:6-7
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    6 Jesus Brought Before Herod Now when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.

    7 When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

  • Mark 6:20
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    20 because Herod stood in awe of John and protected him, since he knew that John was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, and yet he liked to listen to John.

  • Luke 2:15-17
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    15 When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another,“Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us.”

    16 So they hurried off and located Mary and Joseph, and found the baby lying in a manger.

    17 When they saw him, they related what they had been told about this child,

  • Luke 2:39
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    39 So when Joseph and Mary had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

  • Acts 12:19
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    19 When Herod had searched for him and did not find him, he questioned the guards and commanded that they be led away to execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

  • Luke 2:20
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    20 So the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen; everything was just as they had been told.

  • Matt 14:1
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    1 The Death of John the Baptist At that time Herod the tetrarch heard reports about Jesus,

  • John 4:3
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    3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

  • Luke 2:33
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    33 So the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him.

  • Luke 2:27
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    27 So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

  • Luke 3:1
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    1 The Ministry of John the Baptist In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

  • Luke 2:6-9
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    6 While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.

    7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

    8 The Shepherds’ Visit Now there were shepherds nearby living out in the field, keeping guard over their flock at night.

    9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were absolutely terrified.

  • Luke 1:65
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    65 All their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about.

  • Luke 2:43-44
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    43 But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

    44 but(because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

  • Matt 14:5
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    5 Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

  • Matt 1:22
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    22 This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled:

  • Luke 2:12
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    12 This will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.”

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