Did you know …?
• Capernaum was a Jewish fishing and agricultural village by the Sea of Galilee in the early centuries C. E.
• The name“ Capernaum” comes from the Hebrew Kefar Nahum, the village of Nahum.
• Capernaum is the site of several of the Gospels’ stories about Jesus, and Matt 9:1 refers to it as“ Jesus’ own city.”
• The extensively excavated site is now a favorite destination for tourists and pilgrims.
• The impressive reconstructed limestone synagogue visible today dates to the late fourth or fifth-century C. E.
• Some scholars believe that Capernaum’ s fifth-century octagonal church marks the site of the house of Jesus’ disciple Peter.
• Although a miracle story( Matt 8:5-13 and Luke 7:1-10) mentions a Gentile“ centurion,” at Capernaum, the reference is probably to an officer in the army of the Herodian clientking Antipas, not a Roman soldier.
• In addition to the New Testament, other ancient sources such as the writings of the late-first century C. E. Jewish historian Josephus and the rabbis refer to Capernaum.
Mark A. Chancey,“ Capernaum”, n. p. [ cited 26 Sep 2016 ]. Online: https:// www. bibleodyssey. org: 443 / places / main-articles / capernaum
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A mother went to wake her son for church one Sunday morning. When she knocked on his door, he said,“ I’ m not going!”
“ Why not?” asked his mother.
“ I’ ll give you two good reasons,” he said.“ One, they don’ t like me. Two, I don’ t like them.”
His mother replied,“ I’ ll give you two good reasons why YOU WILL go to church. One, you’ re 47 years old. Two, you’ re the pastor!”
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By the time Bobby arrived, the football game had already started.“ Why are you so late?” asked his friend.
“ I couldn’ t decide between going to church and going to the football game. So I tossed a coin,” said Bobby.
“ But that shouldn’ t have taken too long.” said the friend.“ Well, I had to toss it 35 times.”
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A mother was struggling to get the ketchup out of the bottle when the phone rang. She asked her four year old daughter to answer it. She heard her daughter say,“ Mommy can’ t come to the phone. She’ s hitting the bottle.”
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If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would have put them on my knees.
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Mark A. Chancey is professor of religious studies in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His research interests range from the historical Jesus, archaeology and the Bible, and the political and social history of Roman-period Palestine to church-state issues and religion and contemporary public education. He is the author of two books with Cambridge University Press, The Myth of a Gentile Galilee( 2002) and Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus( 2005), and is the coauthor of Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible( Yale University Press, 2012).
Never, under any circumstances, combine a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
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You should never say anything to a woman that even hints that you think she’ s pregnant.
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If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
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