After they were gone, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to destroy Him.”

“Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

“He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told Him, “and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at the harvest.”