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The Nazarenes originated as a sect of first-century Judaism. The first use of the term "sect of the Nazarenes" is in the Book of Acts in the New Testament, where Paul is accused of being a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes ("πρωτοστάτην τε τῆς τῶν ...

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Nazarene \Naz`a*rene"\, prop. n. [L. Nazarenus, Gr. ?, fr. ? Nazareth.] A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, ...

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As they drew near John saw with dismay that they were many of the same Pharisees and Sadducees who had tested the preacher at Bethabara, and the Nazarene in Jerusalem.

The miracle at Cana was too fresh in his memory to allow strong skepticism toward the Nazarene.

Ere the words died away, the Nazarenes, moved by sudden indignation, caught up the echo, and, in the words of one of their favorite hymns, shouted aloud:- THE WARNING HYMN OF THE Nazarenes Around--about--for ever near thee, God--OUR GOD--shall mark and hear thee!

Their intensely cherished preconceptions respecting the Messiah, their persecution and crucifixion of Jesus, the glaring inconsistency of his teachings and experience with most that they expected, these things compelled their incredulity to every proof of the Messiahship of the contemned and murdered Nazarene.

The Jewish converts, or, as they were afterwards called, the Nazarenes, who had laid the foundations of the church, soon found themselves overwhelmed by the increasing multitudes, that from all the various religions of polytheism enlisted under the banner of Christ: and the Gentiles, who, with the approbation of their peculiar apostle, had rejected the intolerable weight of the Mosaic ceremonies, at length refused to their more scrupulous brethren the same toleration which at first they had humbly solicited for their own practice.

Nazarene told us, by rascals of a low sort - not real Bedouins, men whom we might frighten into harmlessness, but from whom there was no willing hospitality to be expected.

The Jewish converts, or, as they were afterwards called, the Nazarenes, who had laid the foundations of the church, soon found themselves overwhelmed by the increasing multitudes, that from all the various religions of polytheism enlisted under the banner of Christ: and the Gentiles, who, with the approbation of their peculiar apostle, had rejected the intolerable weight of the Mosaic ceremonies, at length refused to their more scrupulous brethren the same toleration which at first they had humbly solicited for their own practice.

A laudable regard for the honor of the first proselyte has countenanced the belief, the hope, the wish, that the Ebionites, or at least the Nazarenes, were distinguished only by their obstinate perseverance in the practice of the Mosaic rites.

He'd never recovered from the beating the state troopers had given him on Mount Nazarene, fists, feet, billy clubs, resisting arrest was the charge, the provocation, he'd tasted his own death, black bile at the back of his mouth.

Jeep or in Mount Nazarene, a ten-ounce bag of Planter's peanuts, three lwlky Way candy bars, the last remaining Italian hero sandwich from the previous day and a quart container of orange juice from the refrigerated unit, on the counter by the cash he left $7.

And him whom the Nazarenes of England call the Lion's Heart—.

The former by some are considered the Nazarenes the atter the Ebionites - G and M.

Men and citizens, know this man for the most bitter of the Nazarenes, if that or Christians be their proper name!

I doubt whether these Nazarenes, had they the state religion, would be as tolerant to us, supposing we had kicked down the image of their Deity, blasphemed their rites, and denied their faith.

On the contrary, it was the Nazarenes who ruled the Inland Sea, with their tame dragons which burned the very sea with fire.