The Gospels report that Jesus taught in Capernaum’s synagogue. One of his 12 apostles, Matthew, is described as a tax collector at Capernaum, and several more apostles as living there.

The synagogue at Capernaum (K’far Nahum in Hebrew), recorded in the New Testament as one of the first places where Jesus of Nazareth spoke to the people, will be reconstructed. An agreement ...

Another significant archaeological landmark in Capernaum is a late-Roman (fourth century) synagogue built over the site of an earlier synagogue that would have been in use during Jesus’ day.

Although many who hear him speaking in the synagogue at Capernaum are grumbling and murmuring in protest at his insistence that they eat his flesh and drink his blood, Jesus does not back down.

In one of the first scenes in Capernaum, the camera flies above the slums of Beirut. There is no sight of the Mediterranean Sea or the glamour of the so-called Paris of the Middle East.