room, a courtyard and a well with a cave room carved into the rocky terrain. the house that was recently excavated seems to me exactly the sort of house that jesus would have grown up in. modern-day nazareth, location the one desire you are, you are, don t wanna hear you say. i want it that way we re carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we ve created a brand-new way for you to sell your car. whether it s a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions.
over there, beyond these buildings, is the ancient city of sepphoris. sepphoris would have been the major city in the region while nazareth would ve been but a small village. sepphoris was a very important town, 4 miles or so from nazareth. it was the capital of roman galilee in the first century ad. this area here behind me was plunged into turmoil. a certain man named judas led a rebellion against both rome and the sons of herod the great. he did so by entering into the city of sepphoris, breaking into the armory, stealing all the
growing up and living a regular life, and how is it now that he s transformed into this messianic figure? i think it was difficult for them just to process it as human beings and to make they got up and drove him out of the town. jesus! and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built so that they might hurl him off the cliff. this is mount precipice just outside of the city of nazareth. this is the spot where the men from the synagogue dragged jesus with the intention of throwing him off the cliff and killing him. jesus! i think mary, like any mother, would have been horrified at what was happening to jesus. i think she would have been afraid for her son. things would ve been happening very quickly, and she wouldn t really have understood what was going on. he s in a situation that s essentially a riot in the making. but he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.
what appears to be a house built into the side of a hill with a courtyard and multiple rooms. though the bible tells us very little about jesus childhood, we know from historical sources that turbulent events were taking place in galilee. how might these events have influenced the man jesus became? precisely because galilee was relatively fertile, it was also a target of opportunity for the roman occupiers. jesus! i think jesus would have known about the harshness of roman rule firsthand .
so instead they go to nazareth which was, according to luke, mary s childhood home. 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