Your view has been proven wrong again and again on this thread.
“Your view has been proven wrong again and again on this thread.”
That is completely, and undeniably, false. The word “Nazarere” appears nowhere in the texts of Isaiah 11:1 or Judges 13 (I’m even throwing in an extra verse there for you!). Matthew says “Nazarene”. I perfectly understand the explanations usually given and agree with them. None of that changes the fact that the word “Nazarene” appears no where in the text of Isaiah 11:1. Matthew extrapolated. So did Pope Francis. Case closed. I was right all along and irrefutably so. And on this subject, that will never change because no new text versions of Matthew or Isaiah are likely forthcoming!