Anthony the Martyr remarks that the Jewish women, generally disdainful to Christians, were here full of affability.

Even now religious animosity is weaker at Nazareth than elsewhere.
[Footnote 1: Mark vi.

3.] [Footnote 2: According to Josephus (_B.J._, III.iii.

2), the smallest town of Galilee had more than five thousand inhabitants.

This is probably an exaggeration.] [Footnote 3: _Itiner._, Sec.