The weather is warm and sunny in Galilee. Our first day here, we visited the Mount of the Beatitudes and studied the Sermon on the Mount on the “mount.” We also visited Capernaum and saw the traditional site of the house of Peter’s mother-in-law (where the crippled man was lowered through the roof) and the synagogue just next to it where Jesus taught. We visited the relatively new excavation site at Bethsaida, the birthplace of Peter and Andrew. It was interesting to see a biblical site under exploration. We had lunch in Tiberius. Most people ordered “Peter’s fish” and one woman at our table found a shekel in its mouth. We drove around the Sea of Galilee and located the site on the Golan Heights where Jesus expelled the demons from “Legion,” the demons went into the swine and the swine rushed into the Sea of Galilee because, as my Bible teacher says, they would rather be dead than inhabited by the demons.
Hope you are having an amazing time!
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