Note 1 at Lu 4:16: Nazareth (verdant place or offshoot) is not mentioned in the Old Testament or the Apocrypha, but it is prominent in the New Testament as the hometown of Jesus and was also the scene of some of His best-known ministry. The town of Nazareth still exists today and is located about fifteen miles west-southwest of Tiberias and twenty miles southwest of Tell Hum, which some scholars think to be Capernaum.

The synagogue in Nazareth was where Jesus first proclaimed Himself as the Christ (Lu 4:18-21). He was twice rejected by the townspeople of Nazareth because they had known Him from a child and had also known His family (Mt 13:53-58; Lu 4:22, and 28-30). This was also where He spoke of a prophet having no honor in his hometown (Mt 13:57 and Mr 6:4). Nazareth, not Bethlehem, was the place where the wise men found Jesus (see note 2 at Mt 2:16).