17 Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, saying,

18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
    weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children,
    and she did not want to be comforted,
because they exist no longer[a].”[b]

Joseph, Mary, and Jesus Return to Nazareth

19 Now after[c] Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:18 Literally “they are not”
  2. Matthew 2:18 A quotation from Jer 31:15
  3. Matthew 2:19 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“had died”)