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The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha.Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him.
Joseph Dwelleth in Egypt painted by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, c. 1900. Biblical Egypt (Hebrew: מִצְרַיִם; Mīṣrāyīm), or Mizraim, is a theological term used by historians and scholars to differentiate between Ancient Egypt as it is portrayed in Judeo-Christian texts and what is known about the region based on archaeological evidence.
The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt by Jacob Jordaens (c. 1616) Sometime after Herod had died, the holy family returns from Egypt. Most scholarship places the date of Herod's death around 4 BCE. [6] [7] [8] Upon learning that Herod Archelaus had succeeded his father in Judea, they continued on to Galilee.
Joseph (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ z ə f,-s ə f /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son).
Jesus at the Temple (Giovanni Paolo Pannini c. 1750) c. 6 BCE [†]: John the Baptist is born in Ein Kerem to Zechariah and Elizabeth. c. 6-4 BCE [†]: Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, 40 days after his birth in Bethlehem. 6 CE: End of Herodian governorate in Jerusalem. Herod Archelaus deposed as the ethnarch of the Tetrarchy of Judea.
Luke says that after that Jesus returned with his parents to Nazareth and "advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men", but other than that nothing is written in the gospels of Jesus' next 18 years. [4] Christian tradition suggests that Jesus simply lived in Galilee during that period. [14]
The 215 years between Abraham's call to enter Canaan (AM 2021) and Jacob's entry into Egypt (AM 2236) are calculated from the ages of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob provided in Genesis; the 430 year period in Egypt is stated in Exodus 12:40, although St. Paul in the New Testament says that the 430 years covers the entire period from Abraham to the ...
It was here, after 22 years, that Jacob saw his son Joseph once again. They embraced each other and wept together for quite a while. Israel then said, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive." [66] The time had come for Joseph's family to personally meet the Pharaoh of Egypt. After Joseph prepared his family ...