- Jesus taught in the synagogue (Mk 1:21; 3:1; Jn 6:59).
- Jesus healed the man with the withered hand in the synagogue (Mk 3:1-6)
- Jesus cast out a devil from a man in the synagogue (Lk 4:31-37)
- Jesus said one must eat His flesh and drink His blood to have life (Jn 6:48-60)
- the man with palsy was lowered through the roof (Mk 2:1-12)
- the coin was found in the fish’s mouth to pay the tribute (Mt 17:24-27)
- the centurion’s servant met Jesus to seek healing for his master’s beloved servant (Lk 7:1-10)
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Daily Archive
September 15, 2011
After being rejected in Nazareth (Luke 3:23; 4:16-30), Jesus went to Capernaum and stayed with Peter (Mt 4:13; Mk 2:1). Capernaum continued to be his base of operations for the rest of Jesus’ ministry. Many important events occurred in Capernaum, some of them in the synagogue there. Capernaum is where:
September 15, 2011
Luke 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene. (ESV)
Luke mentions a “Lysanias” the tetrarch who was in power in AD 29, but there was no historical record of him outside of Luke’s account. But then an inscription near Damascus was found reading, “For the salvation of the Au[gust] lords and of [all] their household, Nymphaeus, free[dman] of Ea[gle] Lysanias tetrarch established this street and other things.”
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