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2:22 Archelaus. On the death of Herod the Great, the Romans divided his kingdom among his sons: Archelaus (Judah and Samaria), Antipas (Galilee and Perea), and Philip (NE Palestine). Archelaus was a bloody king and, worse in the eyes of Rome, ineffective. He was removed by Caesar Augustus in A.D. 6 and banished to Gaul. 2:23 He shall be called a Nazarene. Based on the sense of several OT prophecies (notice the plural prophets). Nazarene is probably a synonym for “contemptible” or “despised” since
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