Day 24 Matthew
2:13-20
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph
in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to
Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child
to kill him.”
So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night
and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was
fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my
son.”
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi,
he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its
vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had
learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was
fulfilled:
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are
no more.”
After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream
to Joseph in Egypt 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.”
Day 25 Matthew
2:21-23; Luke 2:39-40
So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the
land of Israel. 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,
he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called
Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: “He will be
called a Nazarene.”
When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law
of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth. And the
child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God
was upon him.
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