Whilst you enjoy the Galilee and sample its riches, never forget that the Galilee of Israel today is a mere moment in a long ...
This is a time when Christianity celebrates ... two describe the virgin birth of Jesus, and two don’t mention it. The Gospel of Mark has people of Galilee referring to Jesus as the son of ...
But they were what Jesus was all about—right from the start, as His family became refugees, seeking asylum in Egypt to escape Herod’s men. At this time of year, many children take part in Chri ...
On a black, rainy night last week, 300 heavily armed Israeli infantrymen converged stealthily on a network of five Syrian border strongpoints along the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
While it is taken as given that Jesus ... in Galilee. 'It looks as though Luke needs to get the holy family down to Bethlehem, remembers that there was a census at around this time, and brings ...
When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for subverting the Roman Republic, the young Octavian, only 18 at the time ... the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem ...
or see the maps in the back of most good "Study Bibles." Notes: Since borders frequently shifted, there are some differences between the political geography at the time of the birth of Jesus (ca ...
By far the mightiest force at the time shaping life in Galilee was the Roman Empire, which had subjugated Palestine some 60 years before Jesus’ birth. Almost all Jews chafed under Rome’s ...
When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum ...
Men sing as a drum beats time. Near that bar mitzvah is ... We have sailed on the Sea of Galilee. We have walked where Jesus walked. I want to open myself to all that is around me.