The City of Nazareth, can any good come from it? Before you get offended this is a direct quote from the Bible and it sounded like a good title for this blog about Nazareth. I have been wanting to write this blog for a couple of weeks now, but I am finding it difficult to come up with the right words for Nazareth. Not because it was a boring place. Quite the opposite. I was completely amazed by the city of Nazareth. Mostly because it’s a Biblical city and it’s where Jesus grew up.
In all honesty, I don’t think there is a lot to do in Nazareth. But there are important places to visit. First of all the Airbnb we stayed in was absolutely beautiful and the owners were so nice to us. On our first day in Nazareth, my husband and I walked downhill to the Church that they believe is covering Mary’s house, which apparently in the days of Jesus would have been considered a cave. This is the place where the angel visited Mary one night to let her know she was pregnant with Jesus. If you ask me that’s a special cave/house. I also thought it was rather tasteful how they built that church around the cave instead of covering the entire place. On that same street, there are a couple of souvenir stores where we did some shopping.
The next day we went to a very tiny church that was built on top of what they believe is the synagogue where Jesus read from the scrolls. After that, we drove up to a mountaintop where a crowd so many thousands of years ago didn’t like what Jesus was saying in that temple, took him to and tried to throw him over the cliff for what they thought was blaspheme. Funny thing about that cliff is, I never realized that was in the Bible until we were visiting Nazareth and wanted to see this place for ourselves. Indeed there is a plaque mentioning that and there is a verse about it, which I have apparently read in the past, but it didn’t really click in my mind what that verse was saying. That was something new that I learned that day.
My husband and I didn’t do much else while we were in Nazareth. We did find a mall to walk around oddly enough and there was a restaurant in that mall that has delicious food, we found my favorite makeup store in that mall too. We also bought a new star for our Christmas tree again oddly enough in Nazareth, not Bethlehem which is where we thought we would have found a star. And on our last day there we stopped at a local bakery and bought some fresh bread and babka for our breakfast. I have to say that the bread and babka were so delicious! So would I go back to Nazareth for another visit? Yes, I would and I would gladly stay at the Airbnb we stayed in. It was a beautiful place. The people were kind to us and they had the freshest, sweetest little oranges I’ve ever tasted. And let’s not forget it’s also where Mary was told she would have Jesus and it’s where Jesus grew up.
Kathleen Smith author of Miscarriages My Story, Brooklyn Raised Livin’ Upstate & Hey You Moments to Remember. Blogs about a variety of things. Has her own podcast Kathleen’s Korner and she is the CEO of BearsWithApps. OH, let’s not forget her YouTube channel