You have to read Matthew and Luke side by side to get the full picture. Luke says that they took Jesus to Jerusalem for the purification ritual within 40 days of the birth according to the Law of Moses. After that, Mary and Joseph returned to their own city of Nazareth (Luke 2:39). Bible language is pretty specific. There’s a word for baby and a word for child. When Jesus was born he was described as a babe. When the Magi visited he was described as a child so he could not have been in Bethlehem and, as scripture notes, Mary and Joseph left Jerusalem and returned to Nazareth within 40 days of His birth. The reason Herod had all the male children beneath the age of 2 killed in Bethlehem was because he questioned the Magi about how old Jesus was and where He was born. The Bible never says the Magi went to Bethlehem. The Magi “went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.” That was Nazareth, ipso facto, the star of Nazareth.
except that this location was NOT mentioned in the Matthew account; just Jerusalem.
There was no reason for the Magi to go to Nazareth; for the place was apparently not mentioned during their visit to Jerusalem.
What Old Testament prophesy would cause them to go there?
Getting to Egypt would have taken the Holy Family BACK thru the area where the search for these two and unders were being killed.
I doubt I'd subject my family to even the REMOTE possibility that...