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Nazareth, Nazarene

Facts:

Nazareth is a town in the region of Galilee in northern Israel. It was about 100 kilometers north of Jerusalem, which took about three to five days to travel on foot.

  • Joseph and Mary were from Nazareth, and this is where they raised Jesus. That is why Jesus was known as "the Nazarene."
  • Many of the Jews living in Nazareth did not respect Jesus' teaching, because he had grown up among them and they thought he was just an ordinary person.
  • Once when Jesus was teaching in the Nazareth synagogue, the Jews there tried to kill him because he claimed to be the Messiah and had rebuked them for rejecting him.
  • Nathanael's remark when he heard that Jesus was from Nazareth indicates that this city was not thought of very highly.

(See also: christ · galilee · josephnt · mary)

Bible References:

Examples from the Bible stories:

*23-04 Joseph and Mary had to make a long journey from where they lived in Nazareth to Bethlehem because their ancestor was David whose hometown was Bethlehem. *26-02 Jesus went to the town of Nazareth where he had lived during his childhood. *26-07 The people of Nazareth dragged Jesus out of the place of worship and brought him to the edge of a cliff to throw him off of it in order to kill him.