Capernaum (Kfar Nahum, "Nahum's village") was a settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
The site is a ruin today, but was inhabited from 150 BC to about AD 750.
The town is mentioned in the New Testament: in the Gospel of Luke it was reported to have been
the home of the apostles Peter, Andrew, James and John, as well as the tax collector Matthew.
In Matthew 4:13 the town was reported to have been the home of Jesus.
According to Luke 4:31-44, Jesus taught in the synagogue in Capernaum on the sabbath days.
In Capernaum also, Jesus allegedly healed a man who had the spirit of an unclean devil and healed a fever in Simon Peter's mother-in-law.
According to Matthew 8:5-13, it is also the place where a Roman Centurion asked Jesus to heal his servant.
A building which may have been a synagogue of that period has been found beneath the remains of a later synagogue.
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many paintings of israel made in site, an amacing experiense in this holy land
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