Lower Galilee · Today: Nazareth, Israel

Nazareth in the Bible

Nazareth is an obscure Galilean village — 'can anything good come out of Nazareth?' — where Jesus grows up and first reads Isaiah aloud in the synagogue, to a reception that turns violent.

Archaeology

Excavation shows a small agricultural settlement of perhaps a few hundred people in the first century, with rock-cut tombs, wine and olive presses and at least one first-century house preserved beneath later churches.

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Verses mentioning Nazareth

29 occurrences across 29 verses in the King James Version.

  1. Acts 6:14

    For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. customs: or, rites

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  2. Acts 10:38

    How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

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  3. Acts 22:8

    And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

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  4. Acts 26:9

    I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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