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17 In this way, these words that God's prophet Jeremiah spoke long ago became true:[a]

18 ‘People heard a sad noise in Ramah.
    Someone is weeping with a loud voice.
It is Rachel and she is weeping for her children.
    Nobody can help her to stop weeping,
    because her children are dead.’

Joseph, Mary and Jesus return to Israel

19 After Herod died, Joseph had a dream in Egypt. In the dream he saw one of the Lord God's angels.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:17 See Jeremiah 31:15