From Mark 1:9 (and Mark 1:24) we know that Jesus lived in Nazareth. The Greek text, which is translated as hometown, actually says “father’s town.” Jesus is travelling from Capernaum to Nazareth. The journey on foot is around forty-five kilometres and would likely have taken two days of travel. Nazareth was a small village, probably with a population of 250-500 people. The village was most likely self-sufficient, with most people planting and growing their own crops of wheat, barley and vegetables. It was a small unimpressive and unimportant village.