A FIND AT GALILEE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19275, 13 March 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)

A FIND AT GALILEE.

CENTURION'S SYNAGOGUE. WHERE CHRIST SAW PETER. " For he (the centurion whose servant .Christ .healed) lovctlv our nation, and .he hath built us-a synagogue." The ruins of :a'synagogue built in Roman times, and beslievecl to be the one referred to in the aljovc passage from Luke (VII, 5), 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 either architectural features, bear out this supposition. At a later period, when every evidence of the Roman domination was resented, the eagles appear to have been hammered' away, so that they are now scarcely recognisable. Other sculptures, including a shell and two wreaths—both Hebrew left uninjured. A small bay near Tabighah is described by Rev. J. Garrow Duncan, who writes of the recent discoveries in the quarterly statement, of the Palestine Exploration I'und. 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 )eeorded in Matk IV., I:—"He entered into a ship and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea and the land." Another larger bay, adds Mr. Duncaj), is probably the place where Peter was fishing when called by bis Master. lit is well known that the fish came there, in shoals because of the water from the spnngs, and that there is no other place on the shore where, what is known as the ,"tlirov.'-net" could be used to greater advantage. In Matthew IV.. 18, it is mentioned that Peter was using a net only used for fishing from, the «hnra.