Born a Nazarene (Mat 2:23)
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Matthew 2:23 claims that Jesus's birth in Nazareth fulfilled the prophecy that the Messiah would be called a Nazarene. However, no such prophecy is found in the Old Testament or any other extant source.
21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.