capernaum in English

noun

ancient city located on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee (Israel); site of partially restored ruins of a splendid synagogue of the 3rd century; site of the home of Jesus during much of his ministry and the home of some of his apostles

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1. 60 23 Jesus Performs Great Works in Capernaum

2. What happens after Jesus reaches the shore near Capernaum?

3. Around us the ruins of Capernaum shimmered in the afternoon heat.

4. And there was a certain Courtier in Capernaum whose son was sick

5. Soon they reach the beautiful, fruitful plain of Gennesaret, south of Capernaum.

6. Landing at Capernaum, on the northern shore, those on tour found little but ruins.

7. When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help.

8. * Jesus cursed the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, Luke 10:10–15.

9. Jesus now enters the city of Capernaum, a kind of home base for his activities.

10. Now, on the Sabbath, they all go to a local synagogue in Capernaum.

11. It is springtime, likely near the fishing town of Capernaum, Jesus’ home base in the region.

12. Capernaum was an ideal setting for the fishermen who earned their living from the sea.

13. On occasion, he went by boat from the Capernaum area to Magadan, Bethsaida, or nearby spots.

14. This Roman Centurion was at Capernaum a town on the edge of the Sea of Galilee.

15. In the evening, the people of Capernaum bring him their sick ones to be cured.

16. The Capernaum location with its bowl-shaped natural amphitheater indeed allowed everyone to observe him clearly.”

17. And they Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.

18. Peter lived in Capernaum, a city on the shore of a freshwater lake called the Sea of Galilee.

19. Paralysis: While Jesus was in Capernaum, people approached him with a paralyzed man lying on a bed.

20. (Mark 6:31) Boarding a boat, probably near Capernaum, they sailed across the Sea of Galilee to a quiet place.

21. on the beach: Along the shore of the Sea of Galilee near Capernaum, there is a spot that forms a natural amphitheater.

22. Cobbey Crisler, coauthor of the above-mentioned book, and acoustical engineer Mark Myles conducted tests “near Tell Hum, site of ancient Capernaum.”

23. Matthew, a Jew who was a tax collector for the Romans at Capernaum, was probably in the service of Herod Antipas.

24. They board a boat, probably near Capernaum, and head for an out-of-the-way place east of the Jordan River beyond Bethsaida.

25. After Jesus characterizes the generation as unresponsive, he singles out for reproach the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, where he has done powerful works.

26. Why, only a few weeks before, probably right there in Capernaum, he had resurrected the 12-year-old daughter of a presiding officer of the synagogue!

27. In the New Testament, Peter was originally known as Simeon or Simon (2 Pet. 1:1), a fisherman of Bethsaida living at Capernaum with his wife.

28. The apostle Peter evidently moved from Bethsaida to Capernaum, where he was involved in a fishing business with his brother, Andrew, and the sons of Zebedee.

29. In the course of his activities of teaching and performing powerful works, Jesus called Matthew from the tax office at Capernaum to be his follower.

30. Army, and a centurion was roughly equivalent to a captain. Centurions play a role in the New Testament; Jesus performs a miracle for a centurion in Capernaum, Centurions …

31. Beseeching (11 Occurrences) Matthew 8:5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, Beseeching him, (KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV) Mark 1:40

32. (John 1:18; 14:6-9) While in Galilee during the second year of his preaching campaign, Jesus performed many powerful works in Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum, and the area round about.

33. Some commentators have suggested that since Matthew’s tax office was in Capernaum —an important fishing center on the Sea of Galilee— he may have worked for these chief tax collectors as a local “contractor of royal fishing rights.”

34. (Mt 11:20-24; Lu 10:13-15) Capernaum had been exalted heaven high in a spiritual way by the presence, preaching, and miracles of Jesus, but it would now be abased, as it were, to Hades, here representing the depth of its abasement.