Matthew 2:20 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 2:20

“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead that sought the young child’s life.

KJV

Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

Many here err from ignorance of history, supposing the Herod who mocked our Lord on the day of His passion, and the Herod whose death is here related, were the same. But the Herod who was then made friends with Pilate was son of this Herod and brother to Archelaus; for Archelaus was banished to Lyons in Gaul, and his father Herod made king in his room, as we read in Josephus. From this we see that not Herod only, but also the Priests and Scribes had sought the Lord's death at that time.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

They are dead - Both Herod and Antipater his son; though some think the plural is here used for the singular, and that the death of Herod alone is here intended. But as Herod’s son Antipater was at this time heir apparent to the throne, and he had cleared his way to it by procuring the death of both his elder brothers, he is probably alluded to here, as doubtless he entered into his father’s designs. They are dead - Antipater was put to death by his father’s command, five days before this execrable tyrant went to his own place.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So Joseph and the Virgin had, like Abraham, to "go out, not knowing whither they went," till they should receive further direction. for they are dead which sought the young child's life--a common expression in most languages where only one is meant, who here is Herod.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
λέγων·	legōn	saying;	G3004 →
ἐγερθεὶς	egertheis	Having arisen	G1453 →
παράλαβε	paralabe	do take	G3880 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
παιδίον	paidion	Child	G3813 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
μητέρα	mētera	mother	G3384 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πορεύου	poreuou	do go	G4198 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
γῆν	gēn	[the] land	G1093 →
Ἰσραήλ·	Israēl	of Israel;	G2474 →
τεθνήκασιν	tethnēkasin	they have died	G2348 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
οἱ	hoi	those	G3588 →
ζητοῦντες	zētountes	seeking	G2212 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ψυχὴν	psuchēn	life	G5590 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
παιδίου.¶	paidiou	Child.	G3813 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 2:13
When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I…
leads to
- Exodus 1:22
  Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
- Acts 12:11
  Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
- Acts 10:7
  When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.
- Matthew 2:12
  And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
- Matthew 1:20
  But after he had pondered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to embrace Mary as your wife,…
Through
Exodus 4:19
Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”
leads to
- Exodus 2:23
  After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
- Exodus 2:15
  When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.
Through
1 Kings 11:21
When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to…
leads to
- 1 Kings 2:10
  Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.