The Daily Audio Bible

Travels to Egypt

¹³ After the Magi had gone, suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.

“Get up,” he said, “and take the child, and his mother, and hurry off to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to hunt for the child, to kill him.”

¹⁴ So he got up and took the child and his mother by night, and went off to Egypt. ¹⁵ He stayed there until the death of Herod. This happened to fulfill what the Lord said through the prophet:

¹⁶ When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the Magi, he flew into a towering rage. He dispatched people to kill all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all its surrounding districts, from two years old and under, according to the time the Magi had told him. ¹⁷ That was when the word that came through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

¹⁹ After the death of Herod, suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.

²⁰ “Get up,” he said, “and take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel. Those who wanted to kill the child are dead.”

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

²² But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling Judaea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go back there. After being advised in a dream, he went off to the region of Galilee. ²³ When he got there, he settled in a town called Nazareth. This was to fulfill what the prophet had spoken:

The preaching of John the Baptist

3 In those days John the Baptist appeared. He was preaching in the Judaean wilderness.

² “Repent!” he was saying. “The kingdom of heaven is coming!”

³ John, you see, is the person spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, when he said,

⁴ John himself had clothing made from camel’s hair, and a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Jerusalem, all Judaea, and the whole area around the Jordan, were going off to him. ⁶ They were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.