It’s getting close to that time when the manger scenes will be out and the many carols about Bethlehem are sung. Which got me thinking…
I’ve heard the hypothesis of the Bethlehem birth narratives (which are very interesting in how Mt and Lk differ in their own rights) being a later tradition and that Nazareth could have been the original home town of Jesus. But, then we have potential issues with the word for Nazareth in Mark…
Could the earliest tradition be Capernaum?