So an artisan of some sort is probably the best way of describing him. Jesus grew up in Nazareth, a village in the Galilee. Now the Galilee, by most of the traditional accounts, is always ...

In many ways the people of Nazareth simply wanted to keep things ... Yet, into this false reality of presumed peace and justice, the hometown boy Jesus dared to invoke sacred scripture to proclaim ...

After Jesus was born, he moved back to his family's hometown of Nazareth. Although the Bible teaches that Jesus was God's son, his parents on Earth were known as Mary and Joseph. NORA: Two dads?

Many scholars agree Jesus, who was frequently referred to as Jesus of Nazareth, would likely have incorporated his hometown into his name.

Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.