Nazareth
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Town in Galilee; where Jesus grew up in the obscure house of an artisan. He left Nazareth to go to the Jordan for baptism.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— Jesus leaves Nazareth to go to the banks of the Jordan for baptism
"he will leave Nazareth and go down to the banks of the Jordan"