On the 23rd we also drove to Galilee to meet the students, who have been there for a week, to have a choir practice for the Christmas Concert. The keyboard was horrible, but it was good to practice! We spent one night and went on a field trip with the students. We went to the Golan Heights, the ancient city of Gamla, where the Romans eventually beat the Jews, who had held out for quite a long time.
A 2000 year old synagogue can still be seen and explored, and there is a walking path to the pinnacle of the mountain (seen behind us). The state of Israel feels that it was a great accomplishment to win this land back in the 1967 war and plan to never let it get out of Israel's lands again. You can learn more and see more pictures at this website:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-2000-year-old-synagogue-at-gamla-the-oldest-yet-found-in-israel/Next, we went Kurzi, where the story of the devils going into pigs and then the pigs running off the hill occurs (see Matthew 8, Mark 5, Luke 8) There is a chapel there and a Byzantine church (ruins). Dr. Judd said that the east side of the Galilee was inhabited by Gentiles, of the Decopolis areas, and that they did eat pork. He also posited that perhaps the devils got into the swine, and ran down to their death, so that the people would reject Jesus.
Chapel commemorating where pigs had evil spirits go into them.
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