"A
cry was heard at Ramah, lamentation, and wailing, and bitter moaning,
Rachel weeping for her children, and will not be comforted, because
they are no more."

(19)Now when Herod was dead, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in
a dream to Joseph in Egypt, (20)saying, Arise, and take the little boy
and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they who sought the
life of the infant are dead. (21)So he arose, and took the child and
his mother, and came unto the land of Israel. (22)But hearing that
Archelaus reigned in Judea in the stead of Herod his father, he was
afraid to go thither. And being divinely warned in a dream, he retired
into the country of Galilee, (23)and came and dwelt in a city called
Nazareth: that what was said by the prophets might be fulfilled, that
he shall be called a Nazarean.

CHAP. III.

THEN in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the desert
country of Judea, (2)and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is
nigh. (3)For this is the person spoken of by Isaiah the prophet,
saying[5], "The voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness, Prepare
the way of the Lord, make his paths strait." (4)Now this John had his
garment made of camel's hair, and a girdle of leather about his loins,
and his food was locusts and wild honey.

(5)Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the regions
about Jordan, (6)and were baptized by him in Jordan, on making
confession of their sins. (7)But when he saw many of the Pharisees and
of the Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, O ye broods of
vipers! who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (8)Produce
then worthy fruits of repentance: (9)and think not to say in
yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say unto you, that
God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
(10)And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: every tree
therefore which produceth not good fruit, is hewing down, and casting
into the fire. (11)I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but
he that is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not
worthy to carry: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and with
fire: (12)whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly
cleanse his threshing floor, and will collect the wheat into his
granary; but the chaff will he burn up with fire unquenchable.

(13)Then came Jesus from Galilee unto Jordan to John, that he might be
baptized b