Sailing on the Sea of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee.

Stretching 17 miles long and 7 miles wide, this is where Jesus did His early ministry (the land in the distance) and also things like the miracle with the overflowing nets, calming the sea and the storm - and walking on water.

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Upon this Rock | Caesarea Philippi

Caesarea Phillippi, where Jesus said to Peter in Matthew 16: "Upon this rock I will build my church."

The cave to the left was extremely deep (it has since filled with a rockslide), and the area in front of the mountain held temples to the god Pan and Zeus. Known as Banaiss Springs (because water flowed from the cave), pagan worshippers would throw animal sacrifices into its depths. #israel #apictureadayofIsrael

Inside the Western Wall Tunnels | Jerusalem

The day we went to the Temple Mount, our guide took us into the Western Wall tunnels.

He told us the history of the temple, how it was built by Solomon on Mount Moriah, where Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac, and how that temple was destroyed. And how then Herod rebuilt the Temple in the same place, right on top of the old one - and how the Romans destroyed it in AD 70... and then how the Muslim Ottoman ruler Shulaman the Magnificent came and put a Muslim mosque right on top of the ruins.

He took us deeper and deeper, pointing out the markmanship that signified Herod's design, then to the smoother rock of the original bedrock of Solomon's Temple.

Then he stopped, stretched his arm out, and said, "This is still the bedrock from the first temple. And on the other side of this wall is the Holy of Holies."

My face = 😮. #apictureadayofIsrael #israel