Discovery BoxMatthew 2:23 
Context2:23 He came to a town called Nazareth 1 and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus 2 would be called a Nazarene. 3
Matthew 5:12
Context5:12 Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.
Matthew 5:17
Context5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them. 4
Matthew 23:29-30
Context23:29 “Woe to you, experts in the law 5 and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You 6 build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves 7 of the righteous. 23:30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, 8 we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
Matthew 24:24
Context24:24 For false messiahs 9 and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Matthew 26:56
Context26:56 But this has happened so that 10 the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
1 sn Nazareth was a very small village in the region of Galilee (Galilee lay north of Samaria and Judea). The town was located about 15 mi (25 km) west of the southern edge of the Sea of Galilee. According to Luke 1:26, Mary was living in Nazareth when the birth of Jesus was announced to her.
map For location see Map1 D3; Map2 C2; Map3 D5; Map4 C1; Map5 G3.
2 tn There is no expressed subject of the third person singular verb here; the pronoun “he” is implied. Instead of this pronoun the referent “Jesus” has been supplied in the text to clarify to whom this statement refers.
3 tn The Greek could be indirect discourse (as in the text), or direct discourse (“he will be called a Nazarene”). Judging by the difficulty of finding OT quotations (as implied in the plural “prophets”) to match the wording here, it appears that the author was using a current expression of scorn that conceptually (but not verbally) found its roots in the OT.
4 tn Grk “not come to abolish but to fulfill.” Direct objects (“these things,” “them”) were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but have been supplied here to conform to contemporary English style.
5 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
6 tn Grk “Because you.” Here ὅτι (Joti) has not been translated.
7 tn Or perhaps “the monuments” (see L&N 7.75-76).
8 tn Grk “fathers” (so also in v. 32).
9 tn Or “false christs”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”
10 tn Grk “But so that”; the verb “has happened” is implied.
