Bible Verses About Nazareth

and settled in a town called Natzeret, so that what had been spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he will be called a Natzrati.

And the crowds answered, "This is Yeshua, the prophet from Natzeret in the Galil."

"What do you want with us, Yeshua from Natzeret? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are -- the Holy One of God!"

When he heard that it was Yeshua from Natzeret, he started shouting, "Yeshua! Son of David! Have pity on me!"

In the sixth month, the angel Gavri'el was sent by God to a city in the Galil called Natzeret,

to a virgin engaged to a man named Yosef, of the house of David; the virgin's name was Miryam.

Miryam stayed with Elisheva for about three months and then returned home.

So Yosef, because he was a descendant of David, went up from the town of Natzeret in the Galil to the town of David, called Beit-Lechem, in Y'hudah,

When Yosef and Miryam had finished doing everything required by the Torah of ADONAI, they returned to the Galil, to their town Natzeret.

So he went with them to Natzeret and was obedient to them. But his mother stored up all these things in her heart.

Now when he went to Natzeret, where he had been brought up, on Shabbat he went to the synagogue as usual. He stood up to read,

and he was given the scroll of the prophet Yesha`yahu. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written,

"The Spirit of ADONAI is upon me; therefore he has anointed me to announce Good News to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned and renewed sight for the blind, to release those who have been crushed,

to proclaim a year of the favor of ADONAI."

After closing the scroll and returning it to the shammash, he sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

He started to speak to them: "Today, as you heard it read, this passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled!"

Everyone was speaking well of him and marvelling that such appealing words were coming from his mouth. They were even asking, "Can this be Yosef's son?"

Then Yeshua said to them, "No doubt you will quote to me this proverb -- `"Doctor, cure yourself!" We've heard about all the things that have been going on over in K'far-Nachum; now do them here in your home town!'

Yes!" he said, "I tell you that no prophet is accepted in his home town.

It's true, I'm telling you -- when Eliyahu was in Isra'el, and the sky was sealed off for three-and-a-half years, so that all the Land suffered a severe famine, there were many widows;

but Eliyahu was sent to none of them, only to a widow in Tzarfat in the land of Tzidon.

Also there were many people with tzara`at in Isra'el during the time of the prophet Elisha; but not one of them was healed, only Na`aman the Syrian."

On hearing this, everyone in the synagogue was filled with fury.

They rose up, drove him out of town and dragged him to the edge of the cliff on which their town was built, intending to throw him off.

But he walked right through the middle of the crowd and went away.