| We returned to the Sea of Galilee along the road running parallel to the Lebanon border. After a lunch enjoying St. Peter�s fish, the typical fish caught by Simon Peter and the other fisherman during Jesus� day, we headed south to Yardenit, a baptismal site along the River Jordan. Here many in our group, including Mary, remembered their baptism. |
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| Saturday we drove north again to Capernaum, the center of Jesus� ministry in Galilee. In Jesus� day, Capernaum was a border town along the Via Maris highway with a customs post for the collection of revenues. The ruins of ancient Capernaum gave us a good picture of the close proximity of many of the houses and places mentioned in the New Testament. It was in Capernaum and its surrounding area that Jesus did much of his healing, and while at Capernaum we sat as a group and had a special time in quiet meditation and healing. On the Capernaum site was a 4th century synagogue built by the early Byzantine Christians over the original synagogue in which Jesus worshipped and taught; basalt stone remains of houses during Jesus� time; the ruins of Peter�s house where Jesus stayed and where early Christians used to meet (now a large church has been built over this site with Peter�s house showing underneath); and a mosaic exhibiting a boat typical of that used during Jesus� day. |
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| Remains of Peter's House |
| Synagogue |
| Mosiac |
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