They answered him, “Jesus the Nazorean.” He said to them, “I AM.” Judas his betrayer was also with them.
Their very look bears witness against them; they boast of their sin like Sodom, They do not hide it. Woe to them! They deal out evil to themselves.
They have acted shamefully; they have done abominable things, yet they are not at all ashamed, they do not know how to blush. Hence they shall be among those who fall; in their time of punishment they shall stumble, says the Lord.
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.”
And the crowds replied, “This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee.” The Cleansing of the Temple.
But Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him, went out and said to them, “Whom are you looking for?”
When he said to them, “I AM,” they turned away and fell to the ground.
Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.”