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Archaeology Searches for Jesus' Early Life

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
Archaeology Searches For Jesus' Early Life in Nazareth
Archaeology Searches For Jesus' Early Life in Nazareth

Recent archaeology is giving us a fresh picture of Jesus' hometown of Nazareth. And it's not the picture that scriptural skeptics have been painting.

"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" That was the question Nathanael asked Philip when his brother told him that he had found "Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote — Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

Despite Jesus' close identification with his hometown, relatively little was known about the community that shaped his life.

That's all beginning to change — and in a way that supports the reliability of the Gospel narratives.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/archaeology-and-nazareth-was-jesus-influenced-by-pagans-144147/

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