Matthew 1:24

When Joseph awoke from sleep he did what the angel of the Lord ¹  told him. He took his wife,

Ge 6:22; Ge 7:5; Ge 22:2,3; Ex 40:16,19,25,27,32; 2Ki 5:11-14; Joh 2:5-8; Joh 15:14; Heb 11:7,8,24-31; Jas 2:21-26

¹ tn See the note on the word “Lord” in 1:20. Here the translation “the angel of the Lord” is used because the Greek article (ὁ, Jo) which precedes ἄγγελος (angelos) is taken as an anaphoric article (ExSyn 217-19) referring back to the angel mentioned in v. 20.