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NAZARETH (mod. en-Ndsira)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAZARETH (mod. en-Ndsira)  , a See also:town in See also:Galilee, in a hollow of the hills on the See also:southern border of the See also:plain of Esdraelon . It first appears as a See also:village (See also:John i . 46) in which See also:Joseph and See also:Mary lived (See also:Luke i . 26) and to which they returned from See also:Egypt (Matt. ii . 23) . , Here the unrecorded years of See also:Christ's boyhood were spent . From the name of the town comes nasara (i.e . " See also:Nazarenes "), the See also:ordinary See also:oriental word for " Christians." There was here a See also:synagogue (Matt. xiii . 54) in which Christ preached the See also:sermon that led to his rejection by his See also:fellow towns-men . The growth of legends and traditional identifications can be traced in the writings of the pilgrims who have visited the town from See also:Jerome's See also:time till our own . For none of these can anything be said, See also:save that it is possible that the village See also:spring (called " St Mary's Well ") is the same as that used in the time of Christ . A large See also:basilica stood here about A.D .

600: the crusaders transferred here the bishopric of Scythopolis . It was taken by See also:

Saladin in 1187 . In 1517 it was captured by the See also:Turks . The See also:population is now estimated at about 3500 Moslems and 65oo Christians; there are numerous See also:schools, hospitals, &c., conducted by Greeks, Latins and Protestants . Visitors are shown the " See also:Church of the See also:Annunciation " with caves (including a fragment of a See also:pillar See also:hanging from the See also:ceiling, and said to be miraculously supported) which are described as the See also:scene of the annunciation, the " workshop of Joseph," the " synagogue," and a See also:stone table, said to have been used by Christ .

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