8:00 this morning, done with breakfast at the Ein Gev Kibbutz, and it was down to the shore. The group set sail for a boat ride across the top third of the Sea of Galilee.
Before I boarded, I took a picture on the Eastern shore. That is Tiberias, the city directly across the lake to the West, to the side of my head.
A nice jaunt early in the morning. We cut across the top third of the lake, saling from East to West. It is pretty much the exact route the disciples took (albeit in the reverse direction) on a night when the wind came up and tossed the boat around wildly. This morning, the sea was calm and it was sunny and pleasant.
The north shore of the lake is the site of where Jesus spent almost all of his time in public ministry, and where the majority of the gospel stories happen. Bethsaida to Capernaum to Tagbha to Magdala to Tiberias. The Sermon on the Mount, calling of the disciples, multiplying loaves and fishes, curing people. That several mile stretch of land right on the north shore is where you get about 80%+ of the gospel. (Thinking Twin Cities, as if everything would have happenned in Mound, MN......or in downtown White Bear Lake and a little east.)
There is the north shore of the Sea of Galilee, in the pictures below. Many of the things in the New Testmant happenned right there within the pictures you are looking at right now.
No Sermon on the Mount today. Or multiplicaton of foods on the side of the hill. Can you imagine if you were taking a boat ride years ago and were so busy taking pictures of your journey, you missed out on what was happenning right behind you. That would not be good.
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