A mosaic in a sixth-century baptistry in Ravenna shows Jesus as a Roman army officer. We are a long way from Galilee. Yet we still do not know how it started. Wally V. Cirafesi’s “Capernaum ...

From a strictly historical perspective, then, we don't really know all that much about the ministry of Jesus. It might have ... smallish cities like Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee, market towns ...