From Nave’s Topical Bible
Nazareth
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 15Passages listed
- 4Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- A village in Galilee
- Joseph and Mary live atMatthew 2:23Luke 1:26Luke 1:27Luke 1:56Luke 2:4Luke 2:39Luke 2:51
- Jesus fromMatthew 21:11Mark 1:24Mark 10:47Luke 4:34Luke 18:37Luke 24:19
- People of, reject JesusLuke 4:16–30
- Its reputationJohn 1:46
The passages, in Bible order (15)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 15 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Matthew 2:23
and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
Commentary on Matthew 2:231 voice
Had he meant to quote a particular text, he would not have written 'Prophets,' but 'the Prophet.' By thus using the plural he evidently does not take the words of any one passage in Scripture, but the sense of the whole. Nazarene is interpreted 'Holyd,' and that the Lord would be Holy, all Scripture testifies. Otherwise we may explain that it is found in Isaiah (c. 11:1.) rendered to the strict letter of the Hebrew. There shall come a Rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Nazarene shall grow out of His rootse.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Matthew 21:11
The crowds replied, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
Commentary on Matthew 21:111 voice
While others were in doubt or enquiring, the worthless multitude confessed Him; But the people said, This is Jesus the Prophet from Nazareth in Galilee. (Ps. 24:8.) They begin with the lesser that they may come to the greater. They hail Him as that Prophet whom Moses had said should come like to himself, (Deut. 15:18.) which is rightly written in Greek with the testimony of the article, (ὁ προφήτες.) From Nazareth of Galilee, for there He had been brought up, that the flower of the field might be nourished with the flower of all excellencies.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Mark 1:24
“What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
Commentary on Mark 1:242 voices
And through the Word Himself who had been made visible and palpable, was the Father shown forth, although all did not equally believe in Him; but all saw the Father in the Son: for the Father is the invisible of the Son, but the Son the visible of the Father. And for this reason all spake with Christ when He was present [upon earth], and they named Him God. Yea, even the demons exclaimed, on beholding the Son: "We know Thee who Thou art, the Holy One of God."
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book IV, 202Patristic
And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, etc. This is not a confession of the will, which follows the reward of confessing, but an extortion of necessity, which compels the guilty to confess. And just as if runaway slaves, after …
Bede· On the Gospel of Mark, 735Patristic
- Mark 10:47
When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Commentary on Mark 10:471 voice
This blind man is rightly described as sitting beside the road and being a beggar; for the Truth himself says: "I am the way." Therefore whoever does not know the brightness of eternal light is blind; but if he already believes in the Redeemer, he sits beside the way; if, however, he already believes but neglects to ask that he might receive eternal light, and ceases from prayers, the blind man indeed sits beside the way but does not beg at all.
Gregory the Dialogist· Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 2, 604Patristic
- Luke 1:26
In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
Commentary on Luke 1:261 voice
[Daniel 8:16-17] "And I heard the voice of a man in the midst of the Ulai, and he cried out and said: 'Gabriel, make this vision intelligible (Vulgate: make this man to understand the vision).' And he came and stood near to where I was standing." The Jews claim that this man who directed Gabriel to explain the vision to Daniel was Michael. Quite appropriately it was Gabriel, who has been put in charge of battles, to whom this duty was assigned, inasmuch as the vision had to do with battles and contests between kings and even between kingdoms themselves.
Jerome· St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER EIGHT, 420Patristic
- Luke 1:27
to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
Commentary on Luke 1:272 voices
Therefore he who undertook to prove the mystery of the Incarnation in its incorrupt state, did not think it necessary to pursue at length the testimony of the Virgin Mary's virginity, lest he should be thought to be a defender rather than an assertor of the mystery. Certainly, when Joseph had made lawful the marriage he was about to contract, he sufficiently showed that the temple of the Holy Ghost, the abode of the mystery, the mother of the Lord could not have been violated.
Ambrose of Milan· Commentary on Luke, 397Patristic
[Daniel 8:16-17] "And I heard the voice of a man in the midst of the Ulai, and he cried out and said: 'Gabriel, make this vision intelligible (Vulgate: make this man to understand the vision).' And he came and stood near to where I was standing." The Jews claim that this man who directed Gabriel to explain the vision to Daniel was Michael. Quite appropriately it was Gabriel, who has been put in charge of battles, to whom this duty was assigned, inasmuch as the vision had to do with battles and contests between kings and even between kingdoms themselves.
Jerome· St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER EIGHT, 420Patristic
- Luke 1:56
Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.
Commentary on Luke 1:562 voices
Mary abode with Elisabeth until she had accomplished the time of her bringing forth; as it is said, And Mary abode, &c. Now it was not only for the sake of friendship that she abode so long, but for the increase also of so great a prophet.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
When blessed Mary was making mention of the memory of the fathers, she properly represented them by naming Abraham in particular. Although many of the fathers and holy ones mystically brought forward testimony of the Lord's incarnation, it was to Abraham that the hidden mysteries …
Bede· Homilies on the Gospels 1.4, 735Patristic
- Luke 2:4
So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.
Commentary on Luke 2:41 voice
But in order that men might know that it was an enrolment of righteousness, there came up to it Joseph and Mary, the just man and the virgin. He who was to be guardian of the Word and she who was to bring it forth.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- Luke 2:39
When Jesus’ parents had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
Commentary on Luke 2:391 voice
Luke has omitted in this place what he knew to have been sufficiently set forth by Matthew, that the Lord after this, for fear that He should be discovered and put to death by Herod, was carried by His parents into Egypt, and at Herod's death, having at length returned to Galilee, came to dwell in His own city Nazareth.
Bede· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 735Patristic
- Luke 2:51
Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
Commentary on Luke 2:511 voice
(in Const. Mon. 4.) But from His very first years being obedient to His parents, He endured all bodily labours, humbly and reverently. For since His parents were honest and just, yet at the same time poor, and ill supplied with the necessaries of life, (as the stable which administered to the holy birth bears witness,) it is plain that they continually underwent bodily fatigue in providing for their daily wants. But Jesus being obedient to them, as the Scriptures testify, even in sustaining labours, submitted Himself to a complete subjection.
Basil of Caesarea· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 379Patristic
- Luke 4:16–30
Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,
Commentary on Luke 4:16–301 voice
You see the Trinity coeternal and perfect. The Scripture speaks of Jesus as both God and man, complete in both aspects: it speaks of God as the Father and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is shown to be a cooperator when, in the form of a dove, he descended upon Christ; when the Son of God was baptized in the river, the Father spoke from heaven. Therefore, what greater testimony do we seek than the fact that the one who spoke in the Prophets, signed it with his own voice?
Ambrose of Milan· Commentary on Luke, 397Patristic
- Luke 4:34
“Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
Commentary on Luke 4:341 voice
(ad Epise. Æg. et Lib.) He spoke of Him not as a Holy One of God, as if He were like to the other saints, but as being in a remarkable manner the Holy One, with the addition of the article. For He is by nature holy by partaking of whom all others are called holy. Nor again did He speak this as if He knew it, but He pretended to know it.
Athanasius of Alexandria· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 373Patristic
- Luke 18:37
“Jesus of Nazareth is passing by,” they told him.
Commentary on Luke 18:371 voice
On account of which is added: They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. All these creatures, insofar as they speak to us through the book of creation, answer us concerning the uncreated Word: Daniel 3: "Bless the Lord, all you works of …
Bonaventure· Commentary on Luke, Chapter 18, 1257Patristic
- Luke 24:19
“What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.
Commentary on Luke 24:191 voice
First comes deed, then word; for no word of teaching is approved unless first he who teaches shows himself to be a doer thereof. For acting goes before sight; for unless by thy works thou hast cleansed the glass of the understanding, the desired brightness does not appear. But still further it is added, Before God and all the people. For first of all we must please God, and then have regard as far as we can to honesty before men, that placing the honour of God first, we may live without offence to mankind.
Theophylact of Ohrid· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 1107Patristic
- John 1:46
“Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.
Commentary on John 1:461 voice
Nathanael readily agrees that something great and most fair is that which is expected to appear out of Nazareth. It is, I suppose, perfectly clear, that not only did he take Nazareth as a pledge of that which he sought, but bringing together knowledge from the law and Prophets, as one fond of learning he gained swift understanding. Come and see. Sight will suffice for faith, says he, and having only conversed with Him you will confess more readily, and will unhesitatingly say that He is indeed the Expected One.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 2, 444Patristic