After Constantine, Jesus-worship, which began as one of ... the nexus of interregional roads” and traffic on the Sea of Galilee. Capernaum’s synagogue, the core civic space, was where ...

One of his first stops was Capernaum, a fishing town on the northwest shore of a large freshwater lake called, confusingly, the Sea of Galilee. Here Jesus met the fishermen who became his first ...

Jesus seems to have started preaching in the Galilee. He's associated with cities, smallish cities like Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee, market towns, fishing centers and so on. And he deals with ...