August 1, 2007

• Capernium from our May trip

  Jesus preached in many towns around Jerusalem. He would travel from place to place and preach in the synagogues and doing good. From studying a list of His travels we find that Jesus ended up spending a lot of time in Capernaum.

  

  

  

  Here is an olive oil press that they found in the area of Capernaum.

  

  Behind our tour guide Nurit (who is standing) is the side wall of the Synagogue at Capernaum.

  Pastor Don read off a list of the various places that Jesus traveled, in ROUGHLY the order that He traveled. The names were given so quickly that I did not get them all down in my notebook, so I took this list from the back of my Bible. You will get the general idea that Capernaum was a frequent stopping place of Jesus during his travels. Capernaum was where Peter’s House was located.

  Travels of Jesus in His early life
  Bethlehem
  Jerusalem – presented in the temple
  Egypt – escape
  Nazareth
  Jerusalem – teach in Temple
  Nazareth – time as carpenter

  The years of ministry
  Nazareth
  Jordan- baptized
  Wilderness of Judea – temptation
  Bethabara – five disciples chosen
  Cana – Water changed to wine
  Capernaum
  Jerusalem – Passover
  Judean countryside
  Jacob’s well at Sychar – woman of Samaria
  Cana – Healing of official’s son
  Nazareth – Mt. Precipice
  Capernaum
  Galilee tour
  Capernaum
  Jerusalem – Passover
  Pool of Bethesda
  Capernaum
  Mount of Beatitudes
  Capernaum
  Through Galilee
  Capernaum
  Gerasenes – Demoniac healed
  Capernaum -Jairus’s daughter raised
  Nazareth
  Galilean Sea
  Capernaum
  Desert near Bethsaida
  Gennesaret -walks on sea
  Capernaum
  Phoenicia – Syrian Phoenician woman
  Decapolis
  Dalmanutha
  Bethsaida
  Caesarea Philippi
  Mt. of Transfiguration
  Capernaum
  Samaria
  Jerusalem
  Bethany
  Bethabara
  Bethany
  Ephriam
  Perea
  Jerusalem Passover
  Garden of Gethsemane
  Palace of high priest
  Pilate
  Herod
  Pilate
  Calvary

  Pastor Don told us that no matter how busy we are in our ministry, we need to find a place where we can go to get rest and refreshment, even Jesus needed that. Capernaum was the place where Jesus could go to worship and to be taken care of. He probably stayed at Peter’s house.
  
  We spent some time looking at the site of the synagogue at Capernaum. The remains of the synagogue that we see is built over the synagogue that Jesus worshipped at, but the synagogue site is the same.

  

  

  The pillars straight ahead from where we were walking were where the scrolls of Torah would have been kept.

  

  Nurit was explaining some aspects of the Synagogue to us.

  

  

  Thought you might like a picture of me there, Pastor Don in Green shirt, Pastor Ted in blue shirt, looking at parts of the synagogue.

  

  The scrolls were kept in the area where the person is sitting.

  

  

  This shows you some of the excavations in Capernaum, and lets us see how close and small the houses were. One house stood out from the rest, with several additions and larger size. It is this house that a Catholic church was built over that is thought to be to be Peter’s. The rationale was that this particular house had more and more additions added onto it than any others in the area, and that was because more and more people would gather for ministry.

  Here are some pictures of what they believe to be the house of Peter.

  

  The Church had a glass floor that looked straight down on the footprint of the house of Peter.

  
  
  This is viewing the walls from alongside the church.
  
  

   You can see that there were additions to the house.

  

  The next stage of our journey brought us UP to Jerusalem. We never fully comprehended what was meant by that term until the bus ride there. I was able to put on Xanga a video of some of the scenery Jesus would have seen on the trip up to Jerusalem, and a song that Nurit taught us that speaks of going up to Jerusalem. After we sing a bit, you will begin to see some of the countryside. I really got great respect for all the walking that Jesus and the disciples did, the countryside was very rugged. Please note that the “related videos” are not my videos, I don’t know whose they are or what they contain, and I have no choice to eliminate them.

  Hoping you have a blessed day!

  Heather

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