Jesus the Nazarene

Matthew 2:19-23 (ESV)
But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, [20] saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead." [21] And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. [22] But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. [23] And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene."

Hey look at that, Jesus ends up in Nazareth according to both Luke and Matthew! Seriously don’t get why all the spilled ink in that commentary trying to reconcile these two narratives. Notice also that Joseph goes to Nazareth to be safe from Herod’s Son, which indicates that he probably would have been safe from Herod living there before hand if he was in Nazareth when the slaughter of the innocents occurred. So if he was there, he would not have been compelled to leave for Egypt to fulfill the prophecy. And if he was living in Nazareth when he fled, there would not have been any debate about where he would have returned.
Of course, this is why I tend to despise commentaries, though CPH could contract with the Australians to write a few more. I despise commentaries because so many of them fall into one of two traps. 1. They say what is, or at least should be, painfully obvious from the text. Or 2. Worse, they say something that is contrary to the text. Either way I find them to be for the most part, worthless. I told this to Dr. Kleinig after he wrote his commentary on Leviticus, one of the few commentaries I have ever enjoyed. He said there is one more problem with them, they repeat the same garbage over and over again. In his opinion most commentators are plagiarists, probably the only people more guilty are Pastors. I can’t tell you how many times I have been lulled to sleep hearing the same analogy from pastor to pastor. These guys can often be the least imaginative people on earth! And then most of them need a manuscript to remember that stupid analogy every kid heard fifty times by the time his parents spared him from the torture of Sunday School! No wonder people fall asleep in church.
Well that was a tangent. In any case Jesus fulfills the next prophecy by living in Nazareth, and being called a Nazarene, which is different from a person who belongs to the Church of the Nazarene, or even a person who takes a Nazirite vow. Yet this is the prophecy that is spoken of here. Actually my Greek New Testament has in the margin notes Judges 13:5; and 16 17, the story of Samson. Again showing how the Old Testament reflects Christ through in through in its history. Samson was a type of Christ, a foreshadowing of Christ if you will. That is not to say that Samson did not live, but in the life and actions of Samson, the Judge who delivered his people from their enemies with his own death, the Israelites are given a picture of what the messiah will do, the true judge who in the end will come to judge the living and the dead. He delivers us from our enemies through his own death.