When Jesus Was a Boy

What was it like to be a boy growing up in Nazareth, a small hillside village in the land of Galilee? In what kind of house did the boy live? What did he eat? Why did everyone expect war to erupt at any moment? Only three and a half miles away, down in the valley, he could see the great city of Sepphoris, the capital of Galilee and the site of one of Herod’s six castles. Why had the Romans crucified 2000 men there when He was eleven? Why did his people assume that the coming Messiah would b...