Lux Domini

Biblical place

Where was Nazareth?

Town identified with Jesus’ upbringing and with the ordinary hiddenness before public ministry.

First appears in Matthew 2:23 · 5 books · 25 chapters

Overview

Nazareth is the town associated with Jesus’ upbringing and early life, and it carries the strange biblical tension between obscurity and world-changing significance.

Nazareth is represented in the local geography layer as Nazareth. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Matthew 2:23 and is mentioned across 5 books, with 32 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Key passages

Appears in

Luke

5 chapter s · 9 verse mentions

Acts

7 chapter s · 7 verse mentions

Mark

5 chapter s · 6 verse mentions

Matthew

5 chapter s · 5 verse mentions

John

3 chapter s · 5 verse mentions