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For eighteen years, until Jesus was thirty, He and Mary lived in Nazareth. In that long period of obscurity Joseph died, and so did Mary's parents, Joachim and Anna. For His mother and Himself Mary's son earned a living carrying on the work in the carpenter shop.
As a young man He was a solitary figure in a boisterously sociable community. What He saw in Nazareth was a miniature of the whole-sorrow and bitter poverty and bewilderment and oppression. He saw the people exploited by their own leaders, betrayed by their own flesh and blood, despoiled by thieves in high places, and ordered around by superstitious old men who split hairs over rules and regulations. Yet He saw, too, that the men and women of Nazareth had fortitude and courage. They had hopes and dreams. They had good instincts as well as bad. He not only pitied them but loved them. Humanity was worth saving!