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God with Us - Gospel of Matthew Part 2

Exploring My Strange Bible

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The Hope for the Messiah Is the Hope for the Branch

The name in Hebrew for where Jesus grew up is Natsarit, upper top left right there. In Greek that got spelled as Nazareth or Nazareth, what we call it. That's the name of the town Jesus grew up in. Do you get it? So he's stick man. And I didn't make up the pun. Come on. He's from the sticks. But there's even something more significant here because Nazareth's stick town did not have a positive reputation.

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