Nazareth is a town in the region of Galilee in northern Israel. It is about 100 kilometers north of Jerusalem, and it 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 Nazareths synagogue, the Jews there tried to kill him because he claimed to be the Messiah and had rebuked them for rejecting him.
* The remark Nathaniel made when he heard that Jesus was from Nazareth indicated that this city was not thought of very highly.
__*[23:04](rc://en/tn/help/obs/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](rc://en/tn/help/obs/26/02)__ Jesus went to the town of __Nazareth__ where he had lived during his childhood.
__*[26:07](rc://en/tn/help/obs/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.
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