Build a house from Nazareth: stone walls, a roof terrace, a courtyard and the carpenter's workshop.
A house and a workshop, step by step.
Model · Galilee in the first century
NazarethThe Workshop in Nazareth
We're building the workshop in Nazareth
Let's build a house and a workshop like the ones in Nazareth, the town where Jesus grew up! Place the pieces, step by step.
Choose a piece, then drag it to the golden spot. You can also use the “Place the piece” button. Turn the scene with “Look”.
Press “Walk around” to look at the house up close, from the outside. Walk with W A S D or the arrow keys, and hold the right mouse button to look around. On a touch screen, walk with the joystick and swipe on the right side to look around. Press “Done” to go back to the model.
The Bible doesn't describe the house of Jesus' family. The model shows a house and a workshop like the ones in Galilee at that time; the shape and layout of the pieces are choices made for the model. There are no people in the scene.
Matthew says Jesus was the carpenter's son. The word can mean a craftsman who worked with wood and sometimes with stone. The workshop in the model shows woodwork.
Matthew 13:55
55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
Mark says Jesus Himself was a carpenter. In the model you see the workshop, not the people.
Mark 6:3
3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
The yoke, the plow, the table and the chest are examples of the trade. The Bible doesn't say that Jesus made these things.
Matthew 7:24–25
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Jesus grew up in Nazareth, with His family, in wisdom and in stature.
Luke 2:52
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.