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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 2:23
And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth. Matthew makes
no mention of the previous residence at Nazareth, and he now names it
first when it becomes the home of Christ. It was an obscure village,
nestled in the hills about five hundred feet above the plain of
Esdraelon, on the side of Galilee. It is not named in the Old
Testament, was probably a small town in the time of Christ, but now has
about 6,000 inhabitants.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets.
Not by one prophet, but the summing up of a number of prophecies. No
prophet had declared in express terms that he should be called a
Nazarene. They, however, did apply to Christ the term "Nezer", from
which Nazareth is derived; the Nazarites, of whom Samson was one, were
typical of Christ; the meanness and contempt in which Nazareth was held
was itself a prophecy of one who "was despised and rejected". See
Isaiah 53:3 11:1 Jer 23:5 33:15 Zec 3:8 6:12.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 2:23
Luke 2:39
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