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.

Geographic context

Nazareth on the map

Nazareth lies in the hills of Lower Galilee in northern Israel, roughly 25 km west of the Sea of Galilee. In the first century it was a small farming village; today it is a large city.

Map of Lower Galilee with a red pin at Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee to the east.
Red pin: Nazareth · S: Sea of Galilee to the east.
Open Nazareth on the interactive mapReal terrain, nearby places, journeys and passages

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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