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
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.
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 a.d., 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 a.d. 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.
coming back from the flight into egypt, it really is a moment where the story shifts over to mary s world. narrator: jesus will spend the next 30 years of his life living in nazareth. the town of nazareth in the first century a.d. is a bit of mystery. we know nothing about it before the first century and we know very little about it in the first century a.d. 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 of. 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 bang with your first son is really a wonderful moment for her, and it is a sign of favor in the eyes
mary s childhood home. and 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 a.d. is a mystery, and we know nothing about it before the first century and know little about it in the first century a.d. doesn t show up in any literatu literature, and it was a pezzant society. the glory of womanhood is having children, and coming back with your first son is really a