After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

Then the devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to his needs.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

When Joseph awoke from sleep he did what the angel of the Lord told him. He took his wife,

and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.

It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

“But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven – except the Father alone.

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you’ and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.

“See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

When he had contemplated this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”