>> when matthew has the family coming back from the flight into egypt, it really is a moment where the story shifts over to mary's world. >> jesus will spend the next 30 years of his life living in nazareth. >> the town of nazareth in the first century ad is a bit of a mystery. we know nothing about it before the first century, and we know very little about it in the first century ad. >> nazareth was a very small village, so small that it doesn't show up in any of the literature of the day, and it's peasant society, so it was all communal, and they didn't have much. >> something i think we have to remember about mary returning to nazareth is that in judaism, the glory of womanhood is having children, and coming back with your first son is really a wonderful moment for her, and it's a sign of favor in the eyes of god.