But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee, and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
Matthew 2:22-23
It appears that Joseph had originally planned to return to Bethlehelm, his ancestral village, after coming back from Egypt, but because of this, he went back to Nazareth, where they had lived before the birth of Jesus, instead.
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