The Journey to Nazareth

The Holy Family strangely returns home. The first journey to Nazareth comes by the Angel Gabriel who tells the Virgin she will give birth to a son which helps to note this is the Holy families home. Yet, after their journey to Bethlehem, they will return to Nazareth. The Journey to Nazareth also comes after the Death of those seeking the Child's Life. The reason for this Journey is still puzzling.

One can celebrate the Angel Gabriel being sent to Nazareth. God sends him to Mary the mother of our Lord. This mission is one to call those God has chosen and found favor upon. This journey reminds us also that good can be found in Nazareth unlike Nathaniel thinks.

Mary will leave Nazareth to visit Elizabeth in the Hill country of Judea. When Mary returns home after 3 months, she Journeys to Nazareth. The question Historically would be that at this point Mary would be noticed to be with Child. But this of course can not be proven.

Then the Holy Family is forced to leave Nazareth and return to the City of David for the registration by Rome. From Bethlehem the Holy Family flee to Egypt and upon their return to judea or the Land of Israel, they returned home. They withdrew from prominance to Nazareth in Galilee. They withdrew from the City of David the birth place of the King and from Jerusalem the City of the King. These places could bring threats to the Child's life. But they went to Nazareth.

This journey fulfills that the Christ will be called a Nazarene. "Nazarene" is one from the town of Nazareth. Nathaniel would show that this means worthless. "Can anything good come from Nazareth." Isaiah 53:3 the servant of God "was despised and we esteemed him not." The Psalmist says, "I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people." These are generally Good Friday Texts but show a low esteem of a Nazarene.

Some have connected this also to the Birth of Samson, "for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the Womb." A Nazirite is one who abstains from wine and strong drink as well as never cuts his hair. Jesus may have not cut his hair but he does not stay away from wine and strong drink. Matthew 11:19 recounts Jesus own words, "The Son of man came eating and drinking and they say, 'Look at him a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."

This is a Journey Home to Nazareth. Jesus is called worthless and despised. Jesus comes to the Poor and lowly to later go back to Bethlehem and Jerusalem and will there be rejected and despised.

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