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Biblical place

Where was Nazareth?

Town identified with Jesus’ upbringing and with the ordinary hiddenness before public ministry.

First appears in Matthew 2:23 · 5 books · 25 chapters

Overview

Nazareth is the town associated with Jesus’ upbringing and early life, and it carries the strange biblical tension between obscurity and world-changing significance.

Nazareth is represented in the local geography layer as Nazareth. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Matthew 2:23 and is mentioned across 5 books, with 32 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Canaan

About 8 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Galilee

About 22 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Samaria

About 48 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jericho

About 93 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jerusalem

About 103 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Nazareth today

Find the traditionally identified site on a modern map.

Nazareth is approached here as a present-day map point rather than a speculative route guide. Use the coordinates and outbound map links to place the site inside its wider landscape.

Nazareth is mapped here at the commonly cited modern identification.

This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Archaeological tells, access rules, excavation boundaries, and nearby modern roads can change.

Modern orientation

Nazareth

32.702°N · 35.298°E

Key passages

Appears in

Luke

5 chapters · 9 verse mentions

Acts

7 chapters · 7 verse mentions

Mark

5 chapters · 6 verse mentions

Matthew

5 chapters · 5 verse mentions

John

3 chapters · 5 verse mentions