Matthew 2:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ 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 Nazarene.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled: He shall be called a Nazarene [Branch, Separated One]. [Isa. 11:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ and came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, that he should be called a Nazarene.

Common English Bible

²³ He settled in a city called Nazareth so that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled: He will be called a Nazarene.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And arriving, he lived in a city which is called Nazareth, in order to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets: "For he shall be called a Nazarene."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was said by prophets: That he shall be called a Nazarene.

Matthew 2:23 Cross References

Numbers 6:13

“This is the law for the nazirites when the time of their consecration has been completed: they shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

Matthew 1:22

All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:

Matthew 21:11

The crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Matthew 26:71

When he went out to the porch, another female servant saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

Mark 1:24

and he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”

Mark 1:9

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

Luke 1:26

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,

Luke 18:37

They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”

Luke 2:39

When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

John 18:5

They answered, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus replied, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

John 18:7

Again he asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

John 19:19

Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”

Acts 2:22

“Fellow Israelites, listen to what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power, wonders, and signs that God did through him among you, as you yourselves know—

Acts 24:5

We have, in fact, found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Judges 13:5

for you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor is to come on his head, for the boy shall be a nazirite to God from birth. It is he who shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 1:11

She made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head.”