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Which New Testament book tells of Herod's order to kill the boys of Bethlehem?

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The answer

Only Matthew (2:16–18). Luke's infancy story has no Herod plot and no flight to Egypt — his family presents the baby at the Temple and returns calmly to Nazareth. The two accounts share Bethlehem and little else after the birth.

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Why it’s interesting

Matthew frames the escape in Israel's own shape — down to Egypt and back, quoting Hosea's "out of Egypt I called my son." Where Luke's infancy chapters end in a psalm of peace, Matthew's end in flight and grief.

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