Where was Jesus from?

Question

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?

Answer 1

Nazareth existed in the first century A.D., and the earliest Gospel fragments are not from the second and third centuries A.D. This was an opinion that existed among those of the "critical viewpoint." Evidence has since been discovered that clearly refutes the previous viewpoint.

A fragment of a manuscript of the Gospel of John, (the last written) is dated to the end of the first century A.D. (Some scholars date it no later than 125 A.D.) was discovered in 1920.

This fragment was discovered in the Upper Nile Region, and is a copy of John 18. Since John likely wrote his Gospel in Ephesus, for it to have been copied, and be in the Upper Nile Region during that time, when travel was mostly by foot, this that the Gospel had to have been written earlier than most people think.

Additionally, evidence within John's Gospel indicates that the Jerusalem was still intact when it was written. Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D., and yet John says, "Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades." (John 5:2) Notice the text puts the information in a contemporary setting. It says "there is," not "there was."

Answer 2

Sweeping generalities, all of it.
Where is the back-up, the references, quotes, proofs?
Nazareth is in Galilee, so he can be referred to as coming from Nazareth, or Galilee.
Like Miami, Florida or Toronto, Ontario.
If Nazareth did not exist at that time, why did Nathaneal ask:
"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?"
John 1:46.
Will your answer be the ever nauseating 'conspiracy' theory?
Please don't be one of those who will believe any wild idea except that which was written.
Your statement that the Gospel writers never met Jesus, nor his original followers, is so far off the mark as to be humorous.
The gospel of Matthew was written by Matthew of 12 Apostles fame!
Are you saying the 12 apostles never met Jesus?

Answer 3

Does it really matter?......The fact still remains....God sent His Spirit to this world to save us.......Salvation through Jesus' life, death and resurrection is central to the gospel message. Jesus Christ died, was buried and was resurrected for a reason: so we could inherit everlasting life in the Kingdom of God (John 3:16). This astounding part of the gospel-the entering into the Kingdom of God—is the aspect so few understand. It is synonymous with salvation. Without understanding this part of the gospel, one cannot understand what salvation is. Do you know how to enter this Kingdom, to attain the salvation of which the Bible speaks?.....http://www.ucg.org/booklets/JC/index.htm

Answer 4

Matthew,Mark and Luke never met Jesus ? They where his Followers !!

Answer 5

Egypt. Read some scholarly articles. Scholars are revising their claims as they discover more information.

Answer 6

Heaven and Jerusalem

Answer 7

logically, I don't know. I wonder about that too sometimes. ask a priest/pastor and if they can't answer tell them that they are not real religious people if they don't know, they each people about Jesus yet they don't know??

Answer 8

I'm not sure, but he just left Chicago --- and he's bound for New Orleans.

Answer 9

He was from someone's weird imagination.