FINDS BY GALILEE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 March 1926, Page 11

FINDS BY GALILEE

Ti de ruins of :i .synagogue built in Roman times, and believed., to be the one referred to in the above passage, have been discovered on the site of Tel Hum, on the Sea of Galilee, which is identified as the Biblical Capernaum. Two Roman eagles on the keystone, and other architectural features, bear out this supposition. At a later period, when eveVv evidence of the Roman domination was resented, the eag'les appear to have been hammered away, so that they are now scarcely recognisable. Other sculptures, including a shell and two wreaths both Hebrew emblems—were left uninjured: A small bay near Tabighah. is described by Rev. d. Garrow Duncan, who writes of the recent discoveries in the quarterly statement

CENTURION’S SYNAGOGUE

WHERE JESUS CALLED PETER .

For he [the centurion whose servant Christ healed] loveth our nation and he hath built us a synagogue.—Luke 7:5.

of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Here he found the surroundings so suitable for the purpose that he has no doubt that it was from a boat in this bay that Christ" addressed the people as recorded in Mark 4: I:—“He entered into a ship, and sat in the sea ; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the' land.” Another larger bay, adds Mr Duncan, js probably the place where Peter was fishing when called by his Master. It is well known that the fish came there in shoals'because of the water from the springs, and that there is no other place on the shore where, what is known as the “throw-net” could be used to greater advantage. In Matthew 4. 18, it is mentioned that Peter was using a net- only used for fishing from the shore.