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| Church at the Mount of the Beatitudes |
Day Three: No extensive commentary today--that will be provided by one of the group members tomorrow morning, but sites today included Tagbha, the location of Jesus' miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, as well as the location of his statement to Peter that "upon this rock [Peter--the translation of rock] I will build my church." (known today as the Peter Primacy church) We took a pilgrimage walk along a road overlooking the Sea of Galilee leading to Capernaum, the location of the home of Peter's mother-in-law and one of the places with the most concrete evidence to date of any of the places we've seen of Jesus residing for a time in that precise location. There is a synagogue next to the ruins of the house, in which Jesus is known to have worshiped. Father Michael explained the "gospel triangle" of the towns around the Sea of Galilee, in which around 80% of the miracles attributed to Jesus likely took place.
Later in the day we went to the Mount of the Beatitudes, the church built to commemorate a possible location of the Sermon on the Mount, also overlooking the Galilee. It came up that it is possibly more likely that the sermon would have actually taken place on a plain as stated in Luke's gospel rather than on the mount as stated in Matthew because Matthew appeared to have a specific desire to make Jesus the fulfillment of what began with Moses, and thus equated the Sermon on the Mount to Moses going up to Mt. Sinai. Thus, the plain may be more historically accurate, but tradition has, for a number of reasons, chosen to commemorate the site as though the revered words of the sermon (applicable no matter where they were presented) were presented just below where we stay for the next three nights, in the town of Tiberius.
Day Three Slideshow (Pisasa Web Slideshow)
Alexander Adams-Leytes
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