call of Nathaniel - what city would you liken Nazareth to?

We read the call of disciples from John's gospel last night.

RC added some fun details. I love the nerdy tidbits. For example John the Baptist showed a couple of disciples Jesus and they went to follow Jesus. When Jesus asked them what they wanted, they responded by asking where he was staying. RC said this was the equivalent of asking themselves for dinner. Jesus did not say "no". He just said, "Keep following." RC mentions this is the start. Three men eating together. From this more people were asked and his followers grew. Now we too eat with Jesus in the form of communion.

Secondly Andrew is named as one of the pair. The unnamed disciple, RC said, was John himself. This fits in well with John never naming himself in his gospel.

A question came to me concerning Nathaniel's response. He said, "What good ever came out of Nazareth?" Nazareth was a sleepy little hamlet off the beaten path. No roads went through Nazareth. If you took the path to Nazareth you went not passing through. So my question is. "What small town in Texas would be equivalent to Nazareth?

I asked this question of my fellow chorus members after church. One man mentioned Waco. Another lady said Pasadena. Both of these town have some of the qualities I think Nathaniel had in mind but not all of them. Waco is too big. Pasadena is a suburb of Houston. It is not isolated.

I do not have a perfect one either. In east Texas I can think of Woodville or Jasper. Not isolated enough. People go through Woodville to get to Jasper. Leabau? Anyone heard of that? It's too small though. But the people I met there were very countrified. Marathon is small and isolated. But the times I have been there so many people I met had left the big city to go to a place that ran at a slower pace. They were not true country bumpkins.