End of the Fifth Day

Leaving Tagbha we walked along the shore of the Sea of Galilee towards Capernaum. This gave such a feel for what it would have been like to walk with Jesus when He was here on earth in this very place. We passed several groves of fruit trees which went from the shore to the road. Remember the Sea of Galilee is a fresh water body. It is really a large lake. Some of the trees were lime trees.

We walked right into Capernaum. From the synagoyue you could see clear over to Kursi (Gaderenes). Somewhere between Capernaum and Gadarenes, out there on the Sea, Jesus calmed the squall. I remember being there in 1988 and seeing how quickly the Sea of Galilee could go from calm and placid to extremely choppy and rough in a very short time. "What manner of man is this that even the winds and the waves obey Him?!!!" (Mark 4.41)

After about an hour in Capernaum we left and began to walk back to where we had parked the car hours before. We approached the hillside where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount. As we came up on it the whole hill was full of sheep- 300 of them! We sat down on a bale of hay and read the Sermon on the Mount while the sheep grazed. As we got up to leave we spotted the shepherd. He was sitting in the shade of a tree. We went over to him. His name was "Mohamed". He is an Israeli Arab. His father owns the sheep and the entire mountainside. I asked him how he gets the sheep to come to him. He said, "I call them." I asked, "They know your voice?" He said, "Of course!" We talked for a few minutes and then he said, "I've go to go to my sheep." Incredible!

Tomorrow- Jerusalem!