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Mount of Beatitudes. Rainbow in the Jordan Valley above
The balcony with the the fields of Kibbutz Beit Zera
arches is where Jesus Photo: ErezBit Photography
gave his Sermon on the
Mount. Photo: flickr
Capernaum. The center of Jesus'
ministry in the region. Photo: flickr
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Photo: flickr

The site, which is one of the most important walls, the names of Jesus and Saint Peter built, through a glass window in the floor,
and authentic in Israel, is presided over were found, leading some to conclude that visitors can see the fascinating findings
by the Franciscan order. Archaeological the two lived there. below.
excavations conducted by the order revealed
an ornate synagogue from the fourth-fifth Around this room, ruins of a large octagonal According to Christian tradition, this is where
century. Excavations of the houses of the church from the Byzantine era were found. Jesus healed the mother of Peter’s wife
village fishermen revealed a larger room, the Above the ruins of this ancient church, a (Matthew 8:14-17), removed an unclean
only one with plastered walls, from the first ship-shaped church was built in the modern spirit from the synagogue (Luke 4:31-35)
century. Among the ancient writings on the era. Beneath the pillars upon which it was and more. When Jesus healed the paralytic

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