18A voice was heard in Ramah,
Weeping, and great mourning[18];
Rachel weeping for her children,
And would not be comforted, because they are not.
19But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they are dead who sought the child's life. 21And he arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 22But hearing that Archelaus reigned in Judæa instead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither; and being warned by God in a dream, he retired into the region of Galilee. 23And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: He shall be called a Nazarene.
III. In those days comes John the Immerser, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa, 2and saying: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 3For this is he that was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, saying:
The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare the way of the Lord,
Make straight his paths.
4And he, John, had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.