An angel warned Joseph in a dream: 'Get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.' Joseph obeys without question, immediately.
This details a political reality—Jesus was born into danger. Not a safe idyll. The family had to flee. Matthew is grounding the theological claims in actual human vulnerability. Jesus experienced exile, displacement, the desperation of refugees. That matters. It means Jesus isn't distant from those pushed to the margins by powerful rulers.
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