Flight into Egypt

===Return from Egypt===
{{Main|Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth}}
[[File:Jordaens Return of the Holy Family from Egypt.jpg|thumb|left|240px|''The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt'' by [[Jacob Jordaens]] (c. 1616)]]

After a time, the holy family returned from Egypt. The text states that Herod had died. Herod is believed to have died in 4 BC, and while Matthew does not mention how, the Jewish historian [[Josephus]] vividly relates a gory death.

The land that the holy family return to is identified as ''Judah'', the only place in the entire New Testament where ''Judah'' acts as a geographic description of the whole of [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]] and [[Galilee]] ([[Matthew 2:20]]), rather than referring to a collection of religious people or the Jewish people in general. It is, however, to Judah that they are described as initially returning, although upon discovering that [[Herod Archelaus|Archelaus]] had become the new king, they went instead to Galilee. Historically, Archelaus was such a violent and aggressive king that in the year 6 AD he was [[deposition (politics)|deposed]] by the Romans, in response to complaints from the population.