Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Nazareth ... Luke's explanation that Nazareth was a city of Galilee indicates that many of his readers were Gentiles.  No Jew would have needed to be told the location of Nazareth.  No man could ever have imagined that an archangel would be commissioned by the God of all creation to visit a village such as Nazareth, situated in a district, the very name of which announced it as a place of the despised Gentiles.  "GALILEE is a contraction of the region's full name, [~geliyl] [~ha-gowyim], which means "district of the pagans."[20] Many reasons have been suggested for God's choice of such a place for the residence of the divine Messiah, including the following: (1) Its Gentile character pointed to God's purpose of saving Gentiles.  (2) Its insignificance suggested that no place where men live is beyond the Father's love and care.  (3) The rural atmosphere provided an appropriate place for Jesus to develop into maturity.  (4) By such a choice God signaled the reversal of human value judgments.  (5) It enabled the fulfillment of the prophecy that Jesus should be called a Nazarene  (Matthew 2:23).  (6) It was less accessible to the curiosity and malignant hatred of powerful rulers than would have been the case with some large city.