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The Nazarenes (or Nazoreans; Greek: Ναζωραῖοι, romanized: Nazorēoi) [1] were an early Jewish Christian sect in first-century Judaism. The first use of the term is found in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 24, Acts 24:5) of the New Testament, where Paul the Apostle is accused of being a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes ("πρωτοστάτην τε τῆς τῶν ...
By the 4th century, Nazarenes are generally accepted as being the first Christians that adhered to the Mosaic law and who were led by James the Just, the brother of Jesus. He led the Church from Jerusalem and according to 1 Corinthians (15:7) had a special appearance of the resurrected Jesus, who appeared only “then to all the apostles”. [17]
Mary's Well, said to be the site of the Annunciation, Nazareth, 1917. Nazarene is a title used to describe people from the city of Nazareth in the New Testament (there is no mention of either Nazareth or Nazarene in the Old Testament), and is a title applied to Jesus, who, according to the New Testament, grew up in Nazareth, [1] a town in Galilee, located in ancient Judea.
Jesus is called a Nazarene in Matthew 2:23, and in Acts 24:5, Paul's accuser Tertullus calls him "a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes". In the NASB Bible and a few other Bible versions, Jesus is also called a Nazarene in many parts of the New Testament, [5] whereas most versions simply say "Jesus of Nazareth" in these verses.
Among the new denominations formed by those seceding or being expelled from the Church of the Nazarene are: the People's Mission Church (1912); the Pentecost Pilgrim Church (1917); the Bible Missionary Church (1955); the Holiness Church of the Nazarene (1961) in the Philippines; the Church of the Bible Covenant (1967); the Crusaders Churches of ...
Nazarene (sect), a term used for an early Christian sect in first-century Judaism, Nasoraean Mandaeans, and later a sect of Jewish Christians Nazarene (title), used to describe people from Nazareth in the New Testament, and a title applied to Jesus
The Rechabites were a group mentioned in the Bible who avoided wine, similar to nazirites. The Septuagint uses a number of terms to translate the 16 uses of nazir in the Hebrew Bible, such as "he who vowed" (euxamenos εὐξαμένος) [18] or "he who was made holy" (egiasmenos ἡγιασμένος) [19] etc.
Hence the Christians were at first called Nazarenes, at Antioch their name was changed to that of 'Christians.'" This may refer to Acts 24:5, where 'followers of Jesus the Nazarene' were grouped into "the sect of the Nazarenes", [16] an appellation that is also attested in the writing by Tertullian (Adv. Marc. 4.8). [17]