Today (Thursday) was a damp rainy day, but it did not prevent us from seeing the things on our tour schedule.  Early in the morning we went to the Mount of the Beatitudes where we had a morning worship service with Steve Green and Chuck Swindoll.   Then we went to the city of Nazareth.  Today it is a bustling city, but in the center, there is a re-constructed village of the small hill country town of Nazareth as it would have looked during Jesus time.  This was to show what life would have been like during Jesus early years.

When we left there, we drove through Cannan, where Jesus performed his first miracle of turning water into wine at a relative's wedding feast.  There was a church there that hosted many weddings, and lots of wine shops selling 'Miracle Wine'.

Then it was on to Capernaum, were we saw the ruins of the synagogue where Jesus did most of His teaching during 2 years of his ministry.  This place also had the house of Peter's mother in law, which now has a Catholic church build above it.

Our main event of the day was late this afternoon when we were both baptized in the Jordan River.  We don't have any picture of this, since we were both in the water, but I think we can get one from others in our group. 



Here is the synagogue where Jesus did most of his ministry teaching.

 

This is inside one of the shops at the Nazareth village

 

This is the church at the Mount of Beatitudes