Jenny Dickinson, Peet's wife said this and sent the next two pictures. Peet is the Dean on the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul, where Jay and I attend.
From Jenny:
Peet sent me this today - all the guys from Anglican Diocese of SC at the Sea of Galilee. Also photo of Peet and his mentor and professor from seminary Peter Walker. It has been a dream of ours for a long time to travel to Israel with Peter, so this is a dream come true for him.
Jay got up early this morning to catch this beautiful sunrise over the Sea of Galilee.
The men have been staying at the Mount of Beatitudes Guesthouse the last few nights and have been enjoying the peacefulness. Although they've stayed busy. Most of the men took the long hike down Mount Arbel yesterday while Jay took some others to the town of Magdala where Mary Magdalene is from.
Mount Arbel
Looks kind of tricky.
In Magdala.
The above images are of Magdala and apparently there are a lot of archaeological remains as well.
The men also visited the following this weekend:
Bethsaida
A city east of the Jordan River, Bethsaida is in a "desert place" (that is, uncultivated ground used for grazing), possibly the site at which Jesus miraculously fed the multitude with five loaves and two fish (Mark 6:32, Luke 9:10). It may be possible to identify this site with the village of Bethsaida in Lower Gaulanitis, which the tetrarch Herod Philip II raised to the rank of a polis in the year 30/31 CE (or 32/33 CE). Herod Philip renamed it "Julias," in honor of Livia, the wife of Augustus. It lay near the place where the Jordan enters the Sea of Gennesaret.
To this neighborhood, Jesus retired by boat with his disciples to rest a while. The multitude following on foot along the northern shore of the lake would cross the Jordan by the ford at its mouth, which is used by foot travelers to this day. The "desert" of the narrative is just the barrīyeh of the Arabs, where the animals are driven out for pasture. The "green grass" of Mark 6:39, and the "much grass" of John 6:10, point to some place in the plain of el-Baṭeiḥah, on the rich soil of which the grass is green and plentiful, compared to the scanty herbage on the higher slopes. -Wikipedia
Caesarea Phillippi
Caesarea Philippi (/ˌsɛsəˈriːə
Caesarea was called Paneas /pəˈniːəs/ (Πανειάς Pāneiás), later Caesarea Paneas, from the Hellenistic period after its association with the god Pan, a name that mutated to Banias /ˈbɑːnjəs/, the name by which the site is known today. (This article deals with the history of Banias between the Hellenistic and early Islamic periods. For other periods, see Banias.) For a short period, the city was also known as Neronias /nəˈroʊniəs/ (Νερωνιάς Nerōniás); the surrounding region was known as the Panion /pəˈnaɪən/ (Πάνειον Pā́neion).
Caesarea Philippi is mentioned by name in the Gospels of Matthew[1] and Mark.[2] The city may appear in the Old Testament under the name Baal Gad (literally "Master Luck", the name of a god of fortune who may later have been identified with Pan); Baal Gad is described as being "in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon."[3] Philostorgius, Theodoret, Benjamin of Tudela, and Samuel ben Samson all incorrectly identified Caesarea Philippi with Laish (i.e. Tel Dan).[4] Eusebius of Caesarea, however, accurately placed Laish in the vicinity of Paneas, but at the fourth mile on the route to Tyre. -Wikipedia
Capernaum
The town is cited in all four gospels where it was reported to have been the hometown of the tax collector Matthew, and located not far from Bethsaida, the hometown of the apostles Simon Peter, Andrew, James and John. Some readers take Mark 2:1 as evidence that Jesus may have owned a home in the town, but it is more likely that he stayed in the house of one of his followers here. He certainly spent time teaching and healing there. One Sabbath, Jesus taught in the synagogue in Capernaum and healed a man who was possessed by an unclean spirit. This story is notable as the only one that is common between the gospels of Mark and Luke, but not contained in the Gospel of Matthew (see Synoptic Gospels for more literary comparison between the gospels). Afterward, Jesus healed Simon Peter's mother-in-law of a fever. This is also the place where Jesus healed the servant of a Roman centurion who had asked for his help. Capernaum is also the location of the healing of the paralytic lowered by friends through the roof to reach Jesus.
The town is referred to only as "his own city", and the narrative does not mention the paralytic being lowered through the roof. Most traditional biblical commentators (e.g. Bengel, Benson and the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary) assume that "his own city" means Capernaum, because of the details that are common to the three synoptic gospels.
According to the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus selected this town as the center of his public ministry in Galilee after he left the small mountainous hamlet of Nazareth. He also formally cursed Capernaum, along with Bethsaida and Chorazin, saying "you will be thrown down to Hades!" because of their lack of faith in him as the Messiah. -Wikipedia
Remember this info above is from Wikipedia :)
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