²³ And he went and lived in a city called ^(A)Nazareth, ^(B)so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.

⁴⁵ Philip found ^(A)Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom ^(B)Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus ^(C)of Nazareth, ^(D)the son of Joseph.” ⁴⁶ Nathanael said to him, ^(E)“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

⁷ So he asked them again, ^(A)“Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

⁵ for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. ^(A)No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be ^(B)a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall ^(C)begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

⁵ For we have found this man a plague, ^(A)one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of ^(B)the sect of the Nazarenes.

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²⁶ In the sixth month the angel ^(A)Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named ^(B)Nazareth,

^24 (A)“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? ^(B)I know who you are—^(C)the Holy One of God.”

⁷¹ And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus ^(A)of Nazareth.”

²² “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, ^(A)a man attested to you by God ^(B)with ^(C)mighty works and wonders and signs that ^(D)God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—

¹⁹ Pilate ^(A)also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”