Matthew 2:19

III. THE RETURN TO NAZARETH.

19. But when Herod was dead.

This event was the signal for the return to Judea. He died in the spring of the year 750, after the building of Rome, just before the passover. This would place his death nearly four years before the Christian era, the date from whence we reckon our time. That was not fixed upon until five hundred, years after the birth of Christ and was fixed erroneously. If we could determine the exact duration of the stay in Egypt, whether. few weeks or several years, we could determine about the time of Christ's birth. The message to return was conveyed in the same way as the message to depart to Egypt, by. dream.