As a man from Nazareth, Jesus most spoke Aramaic - a language that emerged in Syria and shares some similarities with Hebrew. Some have suggested that Jesus' Aramaic name was 'Isho' - a version of ...

Since Hebrew has no vowels, NZR can mean “branch.” Thus, Mark mistook traditions about Jesus being a branch of David to mean that he must have come from a village called Nazareth. Or as ...

Jesus’ parents were devout Jews, who probably had a mezuzah (a roll of parchment containing an ancient Hebrew prayer known as the Shema) on the doorpost of their modest home in Nazareth and kept ...

"Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews". Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.