The Visit of the Magi
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After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,
during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
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and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?
We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."
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When King Herod heard this he was disturbed,
and all Jerusalem with him.
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When he had called together all the people's chief priests
and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
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And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod,
they returned to their country by another route.
The Escape to Egypt
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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.“
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So he got up, took the child land his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
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where he stayed until the death of Herod.
And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the propohet:
"Out of Egypt I called my son."
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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.
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Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
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"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.“
The Return to Nazareth
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After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared
in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
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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."
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So he got up, took the child and his mother
and went to the land of Israel.
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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,
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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."
