Nazareth

Description: Town in Galilee; where Jesus grew up in the obscure house of an artisan
Coordinates: 32.6996, 35.3035

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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

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"