The first thing that Jesus does when he starts his mission of proclaiming the reign of God is to call two sets of brothers: Simon and Andrew who are casting their nets into the sea, and James and John ...

Most of us don't like change. We grab hold of our nets and refuse to let go. It's a step of faith to relax our grip and to ...

21 1 After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself. 2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and ...

When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum ...

Only a limited number of marine fish have been able to colonize the brackish Baltic Sea, where salinity is in the range of 2–10‰ compared with about 35‰ in the Atlantic Ocean.

One of his first stops was Capernaum, a fishing town on the northwest shore of a large freshwater lake called, confusingly, the Sea of Galilee. Here Jesus met the fishermen who became his first ...

This story originally appeared on What’sUpNewp on March 6, 2023. With President Carter’s funeral set for this week; we ...

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I also visited the nearby Capernaum National Park, once home to the Jewish fishing village where Jesus ... of the area on the banks of the Sea of Galilee with the mountains of Jordan perched ...

Peter (Simon) is one of the most interesting New Testament characters. He had many good moments but also made some of the ...

Ask God: To renew your spiritual hunger. I love the familiar story of how Jesus fed five thousand hungry people with only five loaves and two fish. A huge crowd had followed him to the far shore of ...