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Yosef’s family return to Nazaret

2:19 Yosef’s family return to Nazaret

19 After King Herodes (Herod) died, one of Yahweh’s messengers appeared to Yosef (Joseph) in Mitsrayim (Egypt) in a dream 20 and said, “Get ready and take the child and his mother back to Yisrael (Israel), because the ones wanting to kill him have died.” 21 So Yosef packed up and took the child and his mother and went back to Yisrael.

22 However, when he heard that Arkelaos was now reigning over Yehudah (Judea) (instead of his father Herodes), and also having been warned in a dream, he left Yehudah and went north to the Galil area. 23 Once he got there, he settled into a town called Nazaret (Nazareth), and so what had been spoken through the prophets would be fulfilled: “He’ll be called a person from Nazaret.”[fn][ref]

2:23 This is not a specific quote from the Hebrew Scriptures, but note that Matthew does say ‘the prophets’ (not ‘the prophet’). This could be: ¹A play on Hebrew ‘נצר’ from Yeshayah/Isaiah 11:1 where ‘branch/shoot’ (netser) is similar to ‘Natsaret’ (Nazaret/natsrat), ²a play on Shimshon (Samson) the ‘Nazirite’ (נְזִיר) from Heroes (Judges) 13:5,7, or ³just a slur on Yeshua being from insignificant Nazaret (Nazareth) as per Yohan (John) 1:46.

2:23: Mrk 1:24; Luk 2:39; Yhn 1:45.

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