Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
The passing centuries have not allayed the wonder that the Saviour of all people should have spent thirty years in a place like Nazareth.  Horatius Bonar was impressed with the fact that many of the most distinguished places mentioned in the New Testament were unknown in the Old Testament, and that apparently Christ avoided the places like Hebron, Bethel, Shiloh, and even Jerusalem in the sense that he never spent a night there, except as a prisoner, retiring each night to Bethany.  Regarding this, Bonar said: