Nazareth, famous as the place wehre Jesus grew up, was a small hilltop town set among olive groves and fields. It did not grow into a large town due to difficulties in finding enough water. Thus it was a small town like so many others and a place where a boy could grow up and experience normal life.

This drawing from the mid nineteenth century must be not unlike Nazareth was two thousand years earlier (other than the mosque and minaret).