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Nazareth: Mount of the Precipitation

Nazareth: Mount of the Precipitation

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The quarry has taken a bite out of the Mount of the Precipitation, or Mount of the Leap, south of Nazareth. According to popular tradition the people of Nazareth tried to get rid of Jesus here, as told in Luke 4:16–30. When Jesus was given the book of Isaiah to read in the synagogue at Nazareth, he opened it at the words: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor… ” The people stared at him in anger and they got up and drove him out of the town.

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