The Effects of Tiberius and the Reconstruction of Cepherus on the Rural Life of Galilee

The building of Tiberius and the rebuilding of Cepherus would have had an impact on small villages like Nazareth. The influx of precarious day laborers with insecure work, increasing levels of indebtedness to landlords was something that would rise up often in response to these projects. And I think also just the prospect of destitution and kind of itinerancy as a consequence of being displaced from traditional life patterns was a very real prospect. If these things weren't being experienced by Jesus and as closest associates, he would have been aware of these things happening to other people within his vicinity within the countryside of Galilee.