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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.
Mary Magdalene and "the other Mary" go to the tomb. [2] "The women who had come with him from Galilee" [3] find the stone rolled away and the tomb empty. [4] Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb and finds the stone removed. [5] Mary Magdalene informs Peter and the beloved disciple, who go to the tomb. [6] Appearance of angels at the tomb
An angel issues the same "do not to be afraid" at Matthew 1:20, implying that this is perhaps the same angel as in the infancy narrative. [3] The angel "answered" the women, not in response to any expressed question, but "in view of the terrifying effect which he saw was being produced upon the women by what was taking place". [4]
This is in keeping with Luke where Mary has already been informed for some time before about the nature of her pregnancy. [6] Boring notes that "do not be afraid" is a standard angelic opening line in the Bible, which also appears in Genesis 21:17 , Matthew 28:5 , Luke 1:13 , Luke 1:30 , and Revelation 1:17 .
The angel sits upon the stone outside of the tomb. This conflicts with the other gospels which have the angel, or angels, inside the tomb. Those who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible have proposed a number of explanations to account for this. St. Augustine suggested that there could be two sets of angels. One outside the tomb and two inside ...
The angels appear in the standard garb of Biblical angels, who are always portrayed as either wearing white or radiant clothing. The exact form of the angels is uncertain. The text does not make clear if they were in the form of normal men, who Mary did perhaps not recognize as angels, or if they were the radiant beings Biblical angels are ...
Mary's Well in 1839, by David Roberts, from The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia Mary's Well in Nazareth, 2005.. Mary's Well (Arabic: عين العذراء, ʿAin il- ʿadhrāʾ or "The spring of the Virgin Mary") is reputed to be located at the site where, according to one Christian tradition associated with the apocryphal Gospel of James, Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary ...
The second dream, as shown by the text on the angel's banderole: "Flee to Egypt", 13th-century mosaic, Florence Baptistry The Dream of Saint Joseph, by Philippe de Champaigne. Saint Joseph's dreams are four dreams described in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament in which Joseph , the legal father of Jesus , is visited by an angel of the ...