Day 1: The Departure From Nazareth

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Day 1: The Departure From Nazareth

"At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee

and was baptized by John in the Jordan." - Mark 1:9

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The Jesus Journey Audio Narrative

"Jesus leaves His hometown of Nazareth, an agricultural village in the hills of Galilee. He begins a seventy to eighty mile, multi-day walk southward through the dust of the Jordan River Valley, leaving His private life behind to step into His public mission."

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Audio: Ridge Of The First Morning

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DAY 1: DEPARTURE
FROM NAZARETH

(The First Day)

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Village of Nazareth rendition

This image captures a realistic, first-century reconstruction of Jesus' hometown, Nazareth, sitting in the rugged limestone hills of Lower Galilee. Nazareth at this time was a tiny, tight-knit agricultural hamlet with a population estimated at only 200 to 400 people—essentially a few extended families living together.

Small home excavation in Nazareth

1st-Century Nazareth Home Excavation This rare aerial view captures a modest, two-room residential home unearthed in 2009, dating exactly to the time of Jesus. The discovery of unique Jewish chalk stone vessels inside finally proved to skeptics that Nazareth was indeed a real, functioning first-century village where working-class families lived a quiet, ordinary life.

Jesus' childhood home candidate

Hidden beneath a modern convent in downtown Nazareth lies this remarkable first-century courtyard house, partially carved directly out of the natural limestone bedrock and partially constructed with fieldstone walls. Centuries later, Byzantine Christians were so convinced this exact structure was the home where Mary and Joseph raised Jesus that they built a grand monument—the "Church of the Nutrition"—directly on top of it to protect it. Today, the gallery view reveals ancient rock doorways, carved thresholds, and later Crusader-era masonry built to preserve what many archaeologists consider the most compelling physical candidate for Jesus’ childhood home.

Nazareth Village achient winepress.

This is one of the most famous agricultural discoveries in the area. It is located on a hillside that is now part of Nazareth Village—an open-air living history museum built on actual first-century farmland just a short walk from the ancient village center. You can see the shallow, flat limestone floor where grapes were trodden, leading down to the deeper collection vat.

Kokhim Burial Tomb

Discovered beneath the Sisters of Nazareth convent, this pristine 1st-century Kokhim burial tomb features deep horizontal shafts cut into the limestone walls. Because Jewish law strictly forbade burying the dead within the residential borders of a town, this tomb serves as a physical boundary marker for modern archaeologists, showing exactly where the living village of Nazareth ended and the silent hills began.

"The limestone paths around Nazareth are thick with wild mustard plants. Growing up to 10 feet tall from a tiny seed —It's no wonder Jesus compared the Kingdom of God to a mustard seed.”

Day 1: Devotion

Will You Go?

Jesus left His hometown of Nazareth and from this time forward He would say, "The son of man has no place to lay his head." There is a thread of truth that runs from the Old Testament all through the New.

Psalms 45:10-11(a) It is written: Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people and thy father's house. So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty.

Genesis 24 Abraham sends his servant to find a wife for his son, Isaac. He meets Rebecca at a well and sees that she is the one the Lord has chosen. After he gives her gifts of silver and gold and garments, Rebecca is asked, "Will you go" Will you leave your father's house and go to a land you have never been and marry someone you have never met?

Ephesians 5:31-32 Paul says "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but speak concerning Christ and the church.