Psalms 119:133 Order my steps in Your Word; and do not let any iniquity rule over me.
Bible Reading for January 4 (ONPP)
Matthew 1 – 2, Psalms 3
Matthew 1:17 – How many generations did God use to fulfill His promise to Abraham? 40.
Matthew 1:22-23 – A prophecy fulfilled from Isaiah 7:14.
Matthew 2:5 – A prophecy fulfilled from Micah 5:2.
Matthew 2:15 – A prophecy fulfilled from Hosea 11:1.
Matthew 2:17 – A prophecy fulfilled from Jeremiah 31:15.
Matthew 2:23 – A prophecy fulfilled from Isaiah 1:11. (Matthew is obviously not quoting a prophecy directly, as there is no Old Testament passage with the wording he uses. Three major options exist for interpreting this verse. First, it may be that Matthew is associating the word Nazarene with the Hebrew word netser (“branch or sprout”). The “Branch” was a common term for the Messiah, such as in Isaiah 11:1: “A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.” Hebrew was written with only consonants, and netser would have appeared as NZR—the same main consonants as Nazareth. In fact, in Aramaic, the common language of Jesus’ day, the word for “Nazareth” and the Hebrew word for “branch” sounded very much alike. Matthew’s point could be that Jesus was “sprouting up” from an obscure village in Galilee; Jesus was the Branch predicted by the prophets, and the name of the town He grew up in happens to sound just like the prophets’ word for “branch.”)
https://www.gotquestions.org/Matthew-2-23-Jesus-Nazarene.html#:~:text=Matthew%20is%20obviously,word%20for%20%E2%80%9Cbranch.%E2%80%9D
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