17. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet:
18. “In Ramah a voice was heard,grieving and weeping and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her children,and she would not be comforted,because they are no more.”
19. But when Herod was dead, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
20. saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child’s life are dead.”
21. And he rose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.
22. But when he heard that Archelaus reigned in Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Nevertheless, being warned by God in a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee.