When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum ...

Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos. Its population had split into hostile groups.

The gospels claim Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Historians think it is more likely that he was born and grew up near the sea of Galilee in the village called Nazareth. The Galilee, by most of the ...