France notes that the Old Testament quotations in this chapter are "notoriously obscure and unconvincing". Many of them are heavily modified from the originals, with some passages being reversed in meaning. Almost all of them are taken out of context, and presented as prophecy when they were not in the original. The most confusing is that cited in , which does not appear anywhere in the Old Testament. Jerome associates it with , where the etymology of "Nazareth" is derived from the Hebrew word for "branch" ("ne'tser"). That the quotations have been so contorted to fit the narrative, is to France and others, clear evidence that the narrative came first, and the quotations were added after. The author of Matthew firmly believed in the accuracy of the narrative he was recording, and would not alter it to make it better fit the prophecies.