After the Magi visited Jesus, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and told him to take Mary and Jesus to Egypt, where they lived as refugees until Herod’s death. When Jesus proclaimed that he himself was fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy in the synagogue in Nazareth, that divine mission was also a lived experience. Jesus’ own story— his own human experience— was very much aligned with the heart of the kingdom he came to inaugurate.
