Imagine calling him “Jesus the Bethlehemite.” Hmm. Well, we’d have got used to it.
Matthew 2.19-23.
As we know from Luke, both Mary and Joseph
’Cause what happened was
Well. Assuming, as most of us do, that Jesus was born around the year 7
Matthew 2.19-22 KWL - 19 On Herod’s passing, look: The Lord’s angel appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
- 20 saying, “Get up. Take the child and his mother.
- Go to Israel’s land: Those who sought the child’s life are dead.”
- 21 Getting up, Joseph took the child and his mother and went to Israel’s land.
- 22 Hearing Archelaus Herod was made Judea’s king after his father Antipater Herod, Joseph feared to go there.
- After negotiating in a dream, he went back to a part of the Galilee.
But as you can see, once Joseph got back to Israel, he realized Judea was in no way a safe place to raise Jesus. ’Cause the Herod family was still in charge, and the crazy side of the Herod family was still in power.