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SEA OF GALILEE: THE SCRIPTURES
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Apart from several journeys, Jesus’ entire activity before his final departure for Jerusalem was concentrated
around the Sea of Galilee (Matthew 15:29; Mark 1:16, 6:31), also called Lake Gennesaret (Luke 5:1) and Lake
Tiberias (John 6:1, 21:1), or just “the sea” in the Gospels.

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THE LIFE OF JESUS
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Jesus was born towards the end of Herod’s reign as king of the Jews. Matthew and Luke, the two gospel-writers who give an account of his birth, agree that he was born in Bethlehem. Matthew tells how his parents took him to Egypt to e the danger threatened by Herod, who was disturbed by rumours that a new king of the Jews had been born. When, after Herod’s death, they returned from Egypt, they did not settle in Bethlehem, which lay in the territory now controlled…