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(CapCom) Discovery, Houston.
Recommend vector transfer to the BFS.
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(Rhoda) This is Nazareth.
2,000 years ago,
on these very streets,
the people of this town rejected Jesus.
Today, the Scriptures and the ruins
are left to tell the story.
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(Sergio) So, Jesus came to Nazareth
where He had been brought up.
And as His custom was,
He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day
and stood up to read,
and He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah.
And when He had opened the book,
He found the place where it was written:
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
to preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Then He closed the book and gave it back to the attendant
and sat down.
And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue
were fixed on Him.
We are in a place called The Synagogue Church.
Now, if you look at the structure of it,
it is divided.
We see those big rocks here.
And where the arc starts,
it's a newer structure.
Smaller rocks.
And that is because these bigger rocks
were built by Crusaders in the 12th century
on the actual ruins of the 1st century synagogue
that Jesus would have come here to preach
in Luke 4.
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So, right after Jesus is done speaking
in that synagogue where we've just been,
they wanted to take Him to a cliff
and throw Him off of it.
According to the tradition, that cliff is right there.
Mount Precipice.
However, that would take at least
two to three hours' walk.
Whoa!
Oh. Okay.
We're on Mount Precipice.
And, yeah...
that was a short fly through,
but it probably would have taken two or three hours
for Jesus and all the crowd to get here.
Without roads, on these rocks...
very improbable.
Plus, if you want to jump,
it's not that cliffy cliff.
Okay. So there are so many stories and traditions
that have to do with this mount.
And some of them are a little bit on the nutty side.
A lot of people believe,
especially according to the Catholic tradition,
that when the people brought Jesus to this mountain
to push Him over,
instead of Him leaving,
He kind of flew or leaped
all the way over to the Mount of Transfiguration,
over there.
As He did that,
His sandal fell in Daburieh, Deborah.
Let's go back to Nazareth,
and I'll show you more probable places
where they would have wanted to push Jesus
off the cliff.
Should we drive?
If you look around, there are plenty of hills here
where they could have taken Him,
like right there.
And there's a few around elsewhere,
about 15-20 minutes' walking distance,
where they would have taken Jesus
and would push Him off the cliff.
Well, that's it for today.
But, join us next time
as we're going to answer the question:
Can anything good come out of Nazareth?
Well, there you go, little kitty.
So, every Tuesday,
the gas companies,
they come through the neighborhoods
and they honk.
People who need gas will go out,
gesture to them, wave at them that we need gas,
and they will come and change the gallon for you.
Here it is. Here it is. Here it is.
(truck horn honking)
For here. For here.