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And so what the prophets had said came true: "He will be called a Nazarene." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/matthew/2-23.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/matthew/2-23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/matthew/2-23.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/matthew/1.htm">Matthew</a> > <a href="/gntd/matthew/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/2-22.htm" title="Matthew 2:22">◄</a> Matthew 2:23 <a href="../matthew/3-1.htm" title="Matthew 3:1">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/matthew/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/matthew/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />and made his home in a town named Nazareth. And so what the prophets had said came true: "He will be called a Nazarene." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/matthew/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />There he made his home in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, “He will be called a Nazorean.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/matthew/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />and they went to live there in the town of Nazareth. So the Lord's promise came true, just as the prophet had said, "He will be called a Nazarene." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/matthew/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, “He shall be called a Nazorean.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/matthew/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was said by the prophets: That he shall be called a Nazarene.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was said by the prophets: That he shall be called a Nazarene.</p><p class="hdg">Nazareth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/18-5.htm">John 18:5,7</a> They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith to them: I am he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/19-19.htm">John 19:19</a> And Pilate wrote a title also: and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/2-22.htm">Acts 2:22</a> Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him, in the midst of you, as you also know:</p><p class="hdg">He shall.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/26-71.htm">Matthew 26:71</a> And as he went out of the gate, another maid saw him; and she saith to them that were there: This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/6-13.htm">Numbers 6:13</a> This is the law of consecration. When the days which he had determined by vow shall be expired, he shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/13-5.htm">Judges 13:5</a> Because thou shalt conceive, and bear a son, and no razor shall touch his head: for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy, and from his mother's womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/1-11.htm">1 Samuel 1:11</a> And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/69-9.htm">Psalm 69:9,10</a> For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/53-1.htm">Isaiah 53:1,2</a> Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/2-10.htm">Amos 2:10-12</a> It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/1-45.htm">John 1:45,46</a> Philip findeth Nathanael and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/24-5.htm">Acts 24:5</a> We have found this to be a pestilent man and raising seditions among all the Jews throughout the world: and author of the sedition of the sect of the Nazarenes.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/matthew/2.htm">The Return to Nazareth</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">22</span>But hearing that Archclaus reigned in Judea in the room of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither: and being warned in sleep retired into the quarters of Galilee. <span class="reftext">23</span><span class="highl">And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was said by the prophets: That he shall be called a Nazarene.</span><div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/21-11.htm">Matthew 21:11</a></span><br />And the people said: This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/1-9.htm">Mark 1:9</a></span><br />And it came to pass, in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in Jordan.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/1-24.htm">Mark 1:24</a></span><br />Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/1-26.htm">Luke 1:26</a></span><br />And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/2-39.htm">Luke 2:39</a></span><br />And after they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their city Nazareth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/1-45.htm">John 1:45</a></span><br />Philip findeth Nathanael and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/1-46.htm">John 1:46</a></span><br />And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/18-5.htm">John 18:5</a></span><br />They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith to them: I am he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/18-7.htm">John 18:7</a></span><br />Again therefore he asked them: Whom seek ye? And they said: Jesus of Nazareth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/19-19.htm">John 19:19</a></span><br />And Pilate wrote a title also: and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/zechariah/14-2.htm">City</a> <a href="/zechariah/14-11.htm">Dwelt</a> <a href="/matthew/2-15.htm">Fulfill</a> <a href="/matthew/2-17.htm">Fulfilled</a> <a href="/acts/26-9.htm">Nazaraean</a> <a href="/acts/26-9.htm">Nazarene</a> <a href="/acts/26-9.htm">Nazareth</a> <a href="/matthew/2-13.htm">Order</a> <a href="/zechariah/13-4.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/zechariah/7-7.htm">Settled</a> <a href="/matthew/2-17.htm">Word</a> <a href="/matthew/2-17.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/matthew/4-5.htm">City</a> <a href="/matthew/4-13.htm">Dwelt</a> <a href="/matthew/3-15.htm">Fulfill</a> <a href="/matthew/4-14.htm">Fulfilled</a> <a href="/matthew/26-71.htm">Nazaraean</a> <a href="/matthew/26-71.htm">Nazarene</a> <a href="/matthew/4-13.htm">Nazareth</a> <a href="/matthew/4-1.htm">Order</a> <a href="/matthew/5-12.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/matthew/4-13.htm">Settled</a> <a href="/matthew/3-7.htm">Word</a> <a href="/matthew/4-14.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a and be called came city fulfill fulfilled he in lived Nazarene Nazareth prophets said shall So spoken the This through to town was went what will<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/2-23.htm">NT Gospels: Matthew 2:23 And came and lived in a city (Matt. 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