Matthew 2:15

Plain English Version

They lived in Egypt until Herod died, and then they came out of Egypt and went back to Israel country. So it happened just like God told one of his men to write in God’s book, a long time ago. He wrote, “God called his son to come out of Egypt.”

Cross References

Matthew 1:22

That all happened just like God told one of his men to write in God’s book, a long time ago. He wrote,

Matthew 2:14

So Joseph got up right then, in the middle of the night, and he got Mary and Jesus, and they left to go to Egypt.

Matthew 2:17

That all happened the way God’s man, Jeremiah, wrote in God’s book, a long time ago. This is what he wrote,

Matthew 2:19

Some time later, Herod died. Then, in Egypt, Joseph had another dream. He heard God’s angel messenger say,

Matthew 2:23

So he took his family up north to Galilee. He got to the town called Nazareth, and he stayed there. A long time before that, one of God’s men wrote about this, and it is in God’s book. He wrote, “People will say that God’s special man is from Nazareth.” And that happened after Joseph took his family to live at Nazareth.

Luke 24:44

Then he said to them, “Remember the words that I told you while I was still with you. I told you that everything that God says about me in his book had to happen. You can read about those things in the words that Moses wrote, and in the words that God’s other men wrote, and in the songs that are in God’s book.”

John 19:28

After that, Jesus knew that he finished everything that his father asked him to do. Then he said, “I’m thirsty.” So one of the soldiers got a long stick, and he tied a sponge to it. He put it into a pot of sour wine, and then he lifted it up to Jesus’s mouth, for him to drink. When that happened, they did what God’s men wrote in God’s book a long time ago.

John 19:36

And, you know, a long time ago, one of God’s men wrote in God’s book about what those soldiers were going to do to Jesus. He wrote, “They will not break any of his bones.” And another one of God’s men wrote, “They will look at the man they stabbed with a spear.” And those things happened when Jesus died.

Acts 1:16

He said, “Listen, friends, a long time ago the Holy Spirit told David about Judas, the son of Iscariot, and David wrote that story in God’s book. Now it has happened. You know, Judas used to be with us, and he worked with us. He was one of Jesus’s special workers. But the Jewish leaders paid Judas to take a mob of bad men to catch Jesus.