article_snippet: Hewn into a hillside, this is the humble stone and mortar house where a scholar believes Jesus was raised.
article_snippet: It has been dated to the early 1st century by a British archaeologist who says an ancient text points to the building as being the home in Nazareth where Mary and Joseph brought up the son of God.
article_snippet: Dr Ken Dark Dr Ken Dark said that the humble first century home in Nazareth, Northern Israel, could have been where Mary and Joseph brought up the son of God God .
article_snippet: where once there was the house in which the Lord was nourished in the Lord infancy’.
article_snippet: the house in which the Lord was nourished in his infancy’ was cut into a limestone hillside and has a series of rooms and a stairway.
article_snippet: the house in which the Lord was nourished in his infancy’ was first identified as significant in the 1880s after the chance discovery of by nuns an ancient cistern.
article_snippet: The limestone items suggest a Jewish family lived there as Jews believed that limestone could not be impure – and Mary and Joseph were living in Nazareth when the angel Gabriel revealed that Mary would give birth to the son of God, a baby to be named Jesus.
article_snippet: the house in which the Lord was nourished in his infancy’ is thought to be located beneath the Sisters of Nazareth Convent which is across the road from Church of Annunciation in Nazareth.
article_snippet: the house in which Jesus was raised is thought to be located beneath the Sisters of Nazareth Convent which is across the road from Church of Annunciation in Nazareth Nazareth Convent .
article_snippet: The limestone items suggest a Jewish family lived there as Jews believed that limestone could not be impure.
article_snippet: the house in which Jesus was raised has been cut out of a limestone hillside and having a series of rooms and a stairway. 
article_snippet: the house in which Jesus was raised is located beneath the Sisters of Nazareth Convent which is across the road from Church of Annunciation in NazarethChurch of Annunciation in Nazareth.
article_snippet: Along with the home, a number of water sources have also been found at Nazareth.
article_snippet: This image shows a famous source known today as 'Mary's Spring' the house in which Jesus was raised is located near the Basilica of the Annunciation (pictured). 