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This is up there for me too.  Jesus home during His ministry years, and the home of not only Jairus, as in Jairus’ daughter who was raised from the dead by Jesus, but also the home of Peter’s mother-in-law…so Peter’s…

Yep, this is near the top of the list for really amazing spots, for Day 2.  Lots of days to go with lots of neat stuff to see, but this is pretty darn cool if you ask me.  So I…

I can’t say I knew much about what this was until we got there, but the stories from the Bible relating to it, I did know. The most prominent one being that this is the place that is said to…

I tricked you…I’m going to slip in a quick post about some other things before Tabgha.  We had a box lunch planned from EO today.  Let me tell you, do they feed us.  I could have literally had three meals…

Another very emotional stop for me…you can’t believe what I’m about to show you.  Still in awe myself, and I saw it live and in person.  Our last stop before lunch was a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee.…

Next up was the ruins of the town of Chorazin.  There are different spellings, but this was the spelling in my bible.  This site was particularly neat because we were allowed to roam around in the excavated ruins, and there…

Well, I have to admit, I got really emotional on a couple of the stops today, and this was one of them.  Our first stop of day 2 was the Mount of Beatitudes, where Jesus preached His sermon about who…

Last stop before the hotel today was the Church of the Annunciation and St Joseph’s Church in old-city Nazareth.  This would have been Jesus’ home town area.  The Church of the Annunciation is in honor of where Mary lived at…

After lunch we went to Mt Precipice.  The corresponding Bible reading is Luke 14, when they wanted to throw Jesus down and kill Him.  Let me tell you, the average Joe would not survive being thrown over the side of…