Tag: Capernaum
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Woman Healed from an Issue of Blood, Luke 8
While Jesus was making his way through a crowded street in Capernaum, a woman desiring to be healed touched the fringe of Jesus’ tallit’s tzitzit (see definition below): “But as he went the people thronged him. And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither… Read more
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Capernaum “His own city”
Capernaum (meaning Village of Nahum) is referred to as “His own city” in Matthew 9: 1. It was His home during His ministry. At the time of Christ, it was the largest city on the banks of the Sea of Galilee. The district of Capernaum was perhaps the most populated in all of Israel. Because… Read more