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Matthew 2:23 is the twenty-third verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The young Jesus and the Holy Family have just returned from Egypt and in this verse are said to settle in Nazareth. This is the final verse of Matthew's infancy narrative. It is also a much studied verse because of the enigmatic quote that ends it. The original Koine Greek, according to Westcott and Hort, reads: :και ελθων κατωκησεν εις πολιν λεγομενην :ναζαρετ οπως πληρωθη το ρηθεν δια των :προφητων οτι ναζωραιος κληθησεται In the Authorized King James Version of the Bible the text reads: :And he came and dwelt in a city :called Nazareth: that it might be :fulfilled which was spoken by the :prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. The World English Bible translates the passage as: :and came and lived in a city :called Nazareth; that it might be :fulfilled which was spoken through the :prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene." For a collection of other versions see (BibRef Matthew 2:23 ) == Interpretation == Nazareth was a small village unmentioned in any writings before this time, though there is some archeological evidence that a village existed in the area at the time of Jesus.() Matthew gives no specific reason for why the family moved to this town, and Luke has them originally from there. The town was near the Via Maris, the main road connecting to Egypt, and the route the family would have most likely been travelling.〔Harrington, Daniel J. ''The Gospel of Matthew.'' Liturgical Press, 1991 pg. 45〕 Clarke notes that Nazareth was just to the north of the larger centre of Tzippori that had been largely destroyed in the violence after the death of Herod the Great. At this time it was being rebuilt by Herod Antipas, and Clarke speculates that this could have been a source of employment for a carpenter such as Joseph.〔Clarke, Howard W. ''The Gospel of Matthew and its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel.'' Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.〕 Jerome indicates that ''Nazareth'' was used in reference to Old Testament verses using the Hebrew word ''ne'tser'' (branch), specifically citing Isaiah 11:1.〔Jerome, "Letter 57—To Pammachius on the Best Method of Translating": "Once more it is written in the pages of the same evangelist, ''And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.'' Let these word fanciers and nice critics of all composition tell us where they have read the words; and if they cannot, let me tell them that they are in Isaiah. For in the place where we read and translate, (11:1 ) ''There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots,'' in the Hebrew idiom it is written thus, ''There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse and a Nazarene shall grow from his root.''"〕 The ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' notes that, "The etymology of Nazara is ''neser'', which means 'a shoot'. The Vulgate renders this word by ''flos'', 'flower', in the Prophecy of Isaias (11:1), which is applied to the Saviour. St. Jerome (Epist., xlvi, 'Ad Marcellam') gives the same interpretation to the name of the town."〔''Catholic Encyclopedia'', "Nazareth"〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew 2:23」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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