Saint Joseph's Dreams. Saint Joseph's dreams are four dreams described in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament in which Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, is visited by an angel of the Lord and receives specific instructions and warnings of impending danger.
All four dreams come from the period around the Nativity of Jesus and his early life, between the onset of Mary's pregnancy and the family's return from the Flight to Egypt. They are often distinguished by numbers as Joseph's first dream and so on. Especially in art history, the first may be referred to as the Annunciation to Joseph.
The four dreams are as follows: First dream: In Matthew 1:20-21, Joseph is told not to be afraid to take Mary as his wife, because she has conceived by the Holy Spirit. Second dream: In Matthew 2:13, Joseph is warned to leave Bethlehem and flee to Egypt.
Third dream: In Matthew 2:19-20, while in Egypt, Joseph is told that it is safe to go back to Israel. Fourth dream: In Matthew 2:22, because he had been warned in a dream, Joseph awakens to depart for the region of Galilee instead of going to Judea.
Roger Baxter, in his Meditations reflects on the second dream, writing: Ponder the particulars of this command. 1. The angel commands in the name of God, who is the supreme Lord. 2. He delivers the command not to Mary, though she was the more worthy; but to Joseph, because he was the head of the family, and its ordi
All four dreams come from the period around the Nativity of Jesus and his early life, between the onset of Mary's pregnancy and the family's return from the Flight to Egypt. They are often distinguished by numbers as Joseph's first dream and so on. Especially in art history, the first may be referred to as the Annunciation to Joseph.
The four dreams are as follows: First dream: In Matthew 1:20-21, Joseph is told not to be afraid to take Mary as his wife, because she has conceived by the Holy Spirit. Second dream: In Matthew 2:13, Joseph is warned to leave Bethlehem and flee to Egypt.
Third dream: In Matthew 2:19-20, while in Egypt, Joseph is told that it is safe to go back to Israel. Fourth dream: In Matthew 2:22, because he had been warned in a dream, Joseph awakens to depart for the region of Galilee instead of going to Judea.
Roger Baxter, in his Meditations reflects on the second dream, writing: Ponder the particulars of this command. 1. The angel commands in the name of God, who is the supreme Lord. 2. He delivers the command not to Mary, though she was the more worthy; but to Joseph, because he was the head of the family, and its ordi
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