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Today is Monday, December 12, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are getting back on the Jesus Trail.

We are striving to know Jesus even better so that we might allow him to know us even better,

and we deepen our relationship with him. So we have already talked about the city of Bethlehem,

where Jesus was born. But this week we are going to talk about the little town of Nazareth. This, of course,

is where Jesus grew up. Unfortunately, we don't have a ton of stories from when Jesus grew up in Nazareth. In fact, we only have one story from Jesus's boyhood, and that one actually took place in Jerusalem.

But we still can learn a lot about this little town of Nazareth.

Why?

Well, because it was a real place.

Because archaeologists have gone to Nazareth. They have dug in the dirt, they have studied what they found,

and they can tell us what typical Jews did, how they lived, what their houses and their days look like at the

exact time when Jesus was growing up. Remember, when Jesus started his public ministry,

people were sort of confused that he was suddenly saying he was the son of God,

because he had lived a very ordinary life before this.

So any evidence we can find about how a typical Jew lived at the time when Jesus was alive

in the little town of Nazareth will in fact tell us how Jesus lived. And there is a lot that we know.

And I hope that you find it interesting and it helps you understand the real life that Jesus lived.

So the little town of Nazareth. Now when Jesus first starts his public ministry, even people

that are following him say things like, how can something good come from Nazareth? Why would

they have such a low opinion of Nazareth? Well, because a lot of the cities

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