Out of Egypt I Called My Son

Matthew 2:13-15 (ESV)
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." [14] And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt [15] and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son."
So Jesus fled from Bethlehem to Egypt. A few years ago now someone presented to me a view from a commentary trying to reconcile Luke and Matthew on this, saying Jesus went to Nazareth, the Wise Men found him there, and then he fled to Egypt from Nazareth. This makes no sense to me, which is why I’m not naming the commentary as most Lutheran pastors probably have this one now. I don’t know. I haven’t bought this particular commentary, I found this argument right at the beginning of the commentary to be so weak that I refused to buy it. Quite frankly, I think the author and the publisher ought to apologize to the world for it. When Joseph wants to be a safe distance from Herod’s Son, he goes to Nazareth, which leads me to believe if he was in Nazareth to begin with he was probably safe from Herod’s forces as they ransacked Bethlehem and not Nazareth which is a three days journey from Bethlehem, by foot anyway. And Egypt was perhaps even closer than that to Bethlehem, which is now part of Palestine. But being in a different country would have protected him better from Herod’s men, than Nazareth would have. But really, the text says they fled to Egypt. Luke doesn’t really concern himself with this history, and says he went to Nazareth, which is where Christ grew up for the most part. It makes more sense to me to believe Luke is just skipping ahead to this point, indicating that Joseph and Mary went to Nazareth, which both Matthew and Luke agree on. So I fail to see why you have to concoct a story of Mary and Joseph going to Nazareth, the Wise men visiting in Nazareth and not Bethlehem where they were instructed to find the new born king etc.
In any case, here you see Jesus living the history of Israel, only doing it perfectly where Israel failed. He suffers in exile in Egypt, a refugee if you will. He suffers in a strange land with strange customs, and strange gods. And then he is called out of Egypt just as God called Israel out of Egypt. He lives their history perfectly in vicarious fashion, for them. This also shows that Israel’s own history serves as a type for Christ. So that when you read Israel’s history you read Christ’s history, and John 5:39 becomes all the more true. All scripture is about Christ, all of it.