Category:Flight into Egypt (subject)

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The Flight into Egypt refers to an episode in the life of Jesus of Nazareth and his parents Mary of Nazareth and Joseph of Nazareth. The episode is narrated only in the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 2:13-23), and later Christian tradition.

Overview

According to the Gospel of Matthew, after the Adoration of the Magi, an angel warned Joseph to take the child and his mother into Egypt, as Herod the Great was planning the Massacre of the Innocents. When Herod died, they went back to the land of Israel, but being afraid of Herod Archelaus, they settled at Nazareth in Galilee.

Flight into Egypt, in ancient sources

Gospel of Matthew

Mt 2:13-15.19-23 (NRSV) -- [13] Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." [14] Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, [15] and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, "Out of Egypt I have called my son"... <The narrative of the Massacre of the Innocents follows> [19] When Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, 20 "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead." 21 Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And after being warned in a dream, he went away to the district of Galilee. 23 There he made his home in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, "He will be called a Nazorean."

Flight into Egypt, in the arts

<gallery> File:Flight Egypt Giotto.jpg|Flight into Egypt (1306 Giotto), art File:Flight Egypt Rest Cranach.jpg|Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1504 Cranach), art File:Flight Egypt Rest Parmigianino.jpg|[Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1524 Parmigianino), art]] File:Flight Egypt Rest Caravaggio.jpg|[Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1597 Caravaggio), art]] File:Flight Egypt Carracci.jpg|Flight into Egypt (1603 Carracci), art Return of the Holy Family from Egypt (1616 Jordaens), art]] Joseph's Dream (1625 Crespi), art Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1628 Gentileschi), art Joseph's Dream (1640 La Tour), art Joseph's Dream (1645 Rembrandt), art Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1726 Pittoni), art Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1806 Runge), art Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1825 Palmer), art Massacre of the Innocents and Flight into Egypt (1842 Thorvaldsen), art File:Flight Egypt Spitzweg.jpg|[[Flight into Egypt (1879 Spitzweg), art Anno Domini (1883 Long), art File:Flight Egypt Hunt.jpg|Triumph of the Innocents (1884 Hunt), art File:Flight Egypt Hitchcock.jpg|Flight into Egypt (1892 Hitchcock), art File:Flight Egypt Tanner.jpg|Flight into Egypt (1899 Tanner), art File:Flight Egypt Filonov.jpg|Escape to Egypt (1918 Filonov), art

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