Flight into Egypt and the Slaughter of the Innocents
Matthew 2:13-18
13After they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to seek the child in order to destroy him."14So he rose, took the child and his mother by night, and departed to Egypt.15And he remained there until the death of Herod, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, 'Out of Egypt I called my son.'16Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the sages, became exceedingly angry, and sent and killed all the children in Bethlehem and in all its surrounding region, from two years old and under, according to the time he had carefully ascertained from the sages.17Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying:18'A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted, because they are no more.'