According to one Gospel. he is from Bethlehem, and his family only moved to Galilee because of Herod's son.
According to another, he lived in Galilee, his family went to Bethlehem for a census, and they returned to Galilee.
The city of Nazareth didn't exist until the middle of the second century, so he couldn't be from there.
The Gospel writers had never met Jesus, or his original followers, and misunderstood the term "Nazorean" meaning that he had taken the same vows as Samson in the Old Testament, and thought it was a city designation. The earliest Gospel fragments are from the second and third centuries AD, when Nazareth actually did exist.
So where was he from?
2007-05-28
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