ISRAEL 2012MON 04/15/13

CaesaraePhillippi

Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”

Mark 8:27-28

Banias River

“Panias”220 BC to 1300 AD

Banias: Cult Center of the god Pan

Korazin500 BC to 1600 AD

“Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 11:21

mikvah (for purity washings)

Capernaum “town of Jesus”

They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

Mark 1:21

They lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.

Luke 2:4

When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he returned to Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum

Matthew 4:12-13

When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.

He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.

Matthew 8:14-15

Mill Stone

Sea of Galilee

690 ft BSL

He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.”

John 21:6

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him.

Matthew 4:18-22

“Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” Mark 4:38

“Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said.

Matthew 14:28

He called out to them, "Friends, haven't you any fish?" "No," they answered. John 21:5

Discovered in 1986, after a long drought the water level dropped enough to allow this boat to be discovered.After a long, 12-day archeological excavation (the boat was kept in a preserving environment and sailed across the Galilee river), the “Jesus Boat” was put in a 7-year chemical bath of wax paraffin before it could be displayed in the open air.Since the time of its unearthing, the boat has been officially dated to the 1st century. Almost 27 feet long, and over 7 feet wide, the boat was dated based upon the nails used and the construction of the hull.Most scholars agree that the era during which the boat was built falls somewhere between 100 B.C and 100 A.D.

JESUS BOAT FOUND IN THE SEA OF GALILEE IN ISRAEL

Beth Shan4000 BC to 749 AD

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. They cut off his head and stripped off his armor,… They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

1 Samuel 31:8-10

Mount Gilboa

Beth Shan

1980 Picture of Tel with city underground

Qumran

1- In all, scholars have identified the remains of about 825 to 870 separate scrolls.

2- every book of the Old Testament have been discovered except for the book of Esther

3- The Isaiah Scroll, found relatively intact, is 1000 years older than any previously known copy of Isaiah. In fact, the scrolls are the oldest group of Old Testament manuscripts ever found.4- The Dead Sea Scrolls were most likely written by the Essenes during the period from about 200 B.C. to 68 C.E./A.D.

. 5-The Dead Sea Scrolls enhance our knowledge of both Judaism and Christianity. They show Christianity to be rooted in Judaism and have been called the evolutionary link between the two.

Tel Megiddo

Excavations have unearthed 26 layers of ruins, indicating a long period of settlement. Megiddo is strategically located at the head of a pass through the Carmel Ridge overlooking the Jezreel Valley from the west

The site was inhabited from approximately 7000 BC to 546 BC