Israel Trip: Day 2

On Friday we visited many early Christian sites along the Galilee. These included the Mount of Beatitudes (see picture of the church above), the ruins of Chorazin, a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, the “Jesus Boat” exhibit (a recently excavated fishing boat from the time of Jesus), the site of Peter’s primacy (see John 21), and finally, Capernaum, where Jesus and Peter based their ministries.
The social highlights of the day were these: singing “Fairest Lord Jesus” in the Franciscan Chapel on the Mount of Beatitudes, Chum Alexanian modeling a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) at the Chorazin synagogue, and group dancing during the boat ride on the Sea ofGalilee (i.e., “What happens on the Galilee stays in Galilee!”).

 Picture above is of our friend, Chum, wearing a prayer tallit in the excavated Chorazin synagogue.
Picture below is the boat that our group got to ride on at the Sea of Gallilee.

 The guys running the boat cast their nets to try to catch fish as Jesus and his disciples would have done.

 Ken and I enjoyed the boat trip!

 Below is the boat that has been uncovered in the Sea of Gallilee from the time of Jesus.

 Church of Peter's primacy:

 Beautiful shores of the Sea of Gallilee:

 Capernaum-the spaceship-looking building is a church built over Peter's mother-in-law's house (excavated).