Rich, you quoted and bolded:

Nazarenes” is what the Torah observant Jewish believers came to be called. This stems from the verse calling Yeshua a Nazarene (once). It seems apparent that the enemies of the faithful also popularized this application of the term Nazarene towards His disciples, tho the Bible doesn’t apply it to His followers!


When you should have bolded and underlined it like this:

“Nazarenes” is what the Torah observant Jewish believers came to be called. This stems from the verse calling Yeshua a Nazarene (once). It seems apparent that the enemies of the faithful also popularized this application of the term Nazarene towards His disciples, tho the Bible doesn’t apply it to His followers!


Again, there was NO sect called the Nazarenes. The enemies of the Church referred to those who followed Christ as Nazarenes which was meant to be a derogative statement about them because as they said, "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?"

God bless you

'Before offering Himself up as a spotless victim upon the altar, Christ prayed to His Father for all who believe in Him: "that they all may be one; even as thou, Father, art in Me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, so that the world may believe that thou has sent Me".'
~ John 17:21