. Killing innocence Dreams were also a part of Israel's prophetic hope (Jl 2:28). ... provision that Jesus would grow up in a home with a father and mother and thus avoid the cruelty and shame of being unjustly called an illegitimate child (Mt 1:19-23). ... Jesus was further protected from jealous King Herod by the dream that told joseph to flee to Egypt with Mary and the child (v 13). ... Finally, God warned joseph to avoid judea, where Herod's evil son Archelaus the bastard reigned, and to settle in Galilee instead (v 22).LB its The irony of the magi's visit is that while even pagan astrologers come to worship the Jewish Messiah, the illegitimate king of the Jews seeks to destroy him. When Joseph is informed in a dream that Herod has died, he returns to Israel. Hearing that Herod's cruel and incompetent son Archelaus is ruling in Judea, illegitimate bastards yet well placed david merrill No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same wise men from the east went to see the truth.