SCENE 1. Nazareth over a thousand feet
high on the slopes of the Galilean hills is a
town of snow-white houses of native limestone
nestling in terraces of fig, olive, and cypress
trees. We see its beautiful panorama from a
traditional site of the Mount of Precipitation.
The fellow-townsmen of Jesus, after hearing
his then-revolutionary teachings, threatened to
cast him headlong from the brow of a hill.
Hence the saying of Jesus, "A prophet is not
without honor, save in his own country."

SCENE 2. Above the town of Nazareth is its
only spring which is led through a conduit to
the public fountain which we see. Since this
Well of the Virgin Mary is the only source of
water in the town, the mother of Jesus must
have come here to draw water much as the
women we see here are doing. The beauti-
fully erect carriage of the women of the East
is due to this daily task of balancing on their
head the water jars and other burdens they
carry. The fountain affords a fine study of
races in Nazareth with its population of Arab
and Moslem with sprinklings of Syrian-Christian and Jew.

SCENE 3. Thxs massive rock table is an outcropping (no doubt partially hand-shaped) of the rocky slopes above Nazareth. Jesus and his disciples, it is said, sat around this table while he instructed them. Visualizing this rock before the erection of the tiny Catholic Church, which now protects it, we can well imagine the simple gathering that crowded around to learn a new religion taught in parables.

SCENE 4. This old-fashioned carpenter is
shaping a plough handle in the way of his
father, using a small hand adz. In Nazareth
are many such workers in wood who contract
to make and keep in repair the various agricultural tools used in the district. Just such a carpenter was Joseph. Jesus, too, is referred to as a carpenter.

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