The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

 One of Jesus' very early visits was to Nazareth, his home town. Nazareth was not a village. It is called a polis ( G4172) which means a town or city; and it may well have had as many as 20,000 inhabitants. It stood in a little hollow in the hills on the lower slopes of Galilee near the Plain of Jezreel. But a boy had only to climb to the hilltop above the town and he could see an amazing panorama for miles around. 