Nazareth Arab capital Israel New Testament childhood home Jesus pilgrimage shrines shrine biblical event palm tree valley camel
Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC/BCE – 30–36 AD/CE), commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity. Most Christian denominations venerate him as God the Son incarnated and believe that he rose from the dead after being crucified. The principal sources of information regarding Jesus are the four canonical gospels, and most biblical scholars find them useful for reconstructing Jesus' life and teachings. Some scholars believe apocryphal texts such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of the Hebrews are also relevant. Nazareth is the largest city in the North District of Israel. Known as "the Arab capital of Israel," the population is made up predominantly of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. In the New Testament, the city is described as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events. In English translations of the New Testament, the phrase "Jesus of Nazareth" appears seventeen times where the Greek literally means "Jesus the Nazarene" or "Jesus the Nazoraean." Even though a standard English concordance (, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible) lists "Nazareth" twenty-nine times, the place is actually named only twelve times in surviving Greek versions of the New Testament, where it appears in several forms: Nazara, Nazaret, Nazareth, Nazarat, Nazarath. The other English references come from the Greek adjective nazarenos, "of Nazareth" applied to Jesus. Nazara (Ναζαρα) is generally considered the earliest form of the name in Greek, and is found in Matthew 4:13 and Luke 4:16, as well as the putative Q document, which many scholars maintain preceded 70 AD and the formation of the canonical Christian gospels. The form Nazareth appears once in the Gospel of Matthew 21:11, four times in the birth chapters of the Gospel of Luke at 1:26; 2:4, 2:39, 2:51, and once in the Acts of the Apostles at 10:38. In the Gospel
Size: 4502px × 2990px
Photo credit: © SOTK2011 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: -fashioned, 1800, 19th, 2d, academic, age, aged, ancient, antiquarian, antique, antiquity, apocryphal, arab, art, artistic, belief, biblical, black, book, bw, bygone, canon, canonical, capital, century, christ, christian, christianity, classical, copy, creed, crucified, cut, cut-, deity, divine, divinity, doctrine, dogma, drawing, embossed, empire, engrave, engraved, engraver, engraving, etching, expression, faith, figure, formal, front, frontispiece, galilean, god, good, gospel, graphic, hand, healer, hebrew, heritage, historic, historical, history, idol, illustrated, illustration, image, imperial, israel, jerusalem, jesus, jew, judaism, majesty, master, messiah, monotone, national, nazareth, nineteenth, notable, obscure, obsolete, olden, original, paper, period, pictorial, picture, portrait, pre, press, print, printed, printing, proof, publication, publicity, rare, real, realism, realistic, reference, relief, religion, religious, replica, represent, representation, repro, reproduce, reproduction, retro, romantic, saint, saints, shepherd, social, spirit, standard, steel, studio, style, teach, teacher, testament, thomas, time, title, tool, topic, topical, tract, unusual, victoria, victorian, vintage, white
