Sometimes the most significant contributions to human history come from the most unexpected places. Like a forgotten petri dish that revolutionized medicine, or a small town called Nazareth that changed the world.

"Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" This skeptical question from Nathanael in John's Gospel captures the common human tendency to dismiss what seems unimportant or obscure. Nazareth was the ancient equivalent of someone saying, "I'm from nowhere special." It was unremarkable by most standards, a place you'd probably never visit unless you had to…