By Jon Schell. When Jesus returned to Nazareth, He spoke in the synagogue in front of people that he grew up with, according to Luke 4:22-30. Here, He should have been a hometown hero, but He wasn ...

Other than that, it is a fair assumption that he would have learned the craft of his foster father, St. Joseph, who was a ...

The Sabbath service at a synagogue consisted of prayers, readings, a homily and blessings. Jesus, as a young and eloquent rabbi, is invited to lead the Sabbath prayer on his first visit back to his ...

Nazareth was a very small town when Jesus was born. When my wife and I visited there in 2014, our tour guide told us that it was scarcely as large as the parking lot of the Church of the ...

Jesus of Nazareth was executed today on the orders of the Roman State. Method of execution: Crucifixion. The charge under Roman law was treason, and under Herodian law blasphemy against the Temple.

Jesus was a Jew. This rudimentary fact about the Son of Man is often overlooked by Christians, who are habitually prone to emphasize the differences rather than the similarities between their ...

The humble dwelling is the first dating to the era of Jesus to be discovered in Nazareth, then a hamlet of around 50 impoverished Jewish families where Jesus spent his boyhood.