ra25 I know where I'm from: who's coming with me?


YOU KNOW WHERE I'M FROM: we know who's going with us! Ancient Nazareth rests on a jagged brow of a windy hilltop in lower Galilee where no more than a hundred Jewish families live; it's a very tiny village, there are no roads, no public buildings, even there is no syn-agogue yet?

The villagers share a single well from which to draw fresh water. A single bath, fed by a trickle of rainfall captured & stored in underground cisterns, serves the entire population; it's a village of mostly illiterates peasants, farmers, and day laborers; a place not existing on any map!

The homes @ Natsereth are quite simple affairs: a single windowless room, divided in two - one room for the fam-ily, the other for the livestock - make of whitewashed mud & stone & crowned with a flat-topped roof where the householders gather to pray, where they lay out their wash to dry, where they take their meals on temperate evenings, and where, in the hot summer months, they roll out their dusty mats to sleep. The lucky inhabitants have a courtyard and a tiny patch of soil to grow vegetables, for no matter their occupation or skill, every Nazarean is a farmer.

The peasants who call this secluded village their home are, without exception, cul-tivators of the land!

It is agriculture that feeds and sustains its meager population! Everyone raises their own livestock, everyone plants their own crop: a bit of barley, some wheat, a few stalks of millet & oats! The manure collected from the animals feeds the earth, which in turn feeds the villagers, who then feed the livestock.

Self-sufficiency is the rule. This hillside hamlet of Natsereth is só smàll, obscure & hidden, that it's name does not appear in any ancient Jewish source before the third century C.E. ~ not in the Hebrew Bible, not in a Talmud, not in the Midrash, nor in Josephus. It is, in short, an inconsequential and utterly forgettable place! It is also the 'city' in which Yesh was likely born and raised?

That he came from this tightly enclosed village of a few hundred impoverished Jews may very well be the only fact concerning Yeshua's childhood about which we can be fairly confident? Só identified was Yeshu wìth Natsereth that he was known throughout his life simply as "the Nazarene." HaNotsri! Considering how common a first name Yehoshua wàs, the city of his birth became his principal sobriquet?!!

It was the one thing about which everyone who knew him ~ his friends & his enemies alike ~ seemed to agree? Why, tHen, do Mattai & Lucky Luke - & ONLY MAT (2:1-9) & LUKE (2:1-21) - claim that Yesh was born nòt in Natsereth but in Beth LECHEM, even though the name Bethlechem des not appear anywhere else in the entire "NOT" (not even anywhere else in Matt & Luke, both of which repeatedly refer to Yesh as "the Nazarean"knipoog, save for a single verse in the gospel of John (7:42)? The answer may be found in this verse from Yochanan/Iohannos! It was, the euangelist writes, early in Jesus's ministry: up to this point, Yesh had, for the most part, restricted himself to preaching his message to the poor farmers & fishermen of Galilee - his friends and neighbors ~~~~
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