ISRAEL PHOTOS III -- A COLLECTION OF PHOTOS
FROM ISRAEL
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SCENES AND
SITES PERTINENT TO THE STUDY OF CHRISTIANITY
JESUS FEEDING THE 5,000 ALTERNATE LOCATION
After reading the four Gospels, one may consider there
is a chance that the feeding of the five thousand took place on the lower slopes
of Mt. Arbel or one of the flat places at its foot.
The place was in a location a little to the south of
Magdala and in an area where those in the villages of the Gennesaret Plain would
have been able to see Jesus disciples' boat and run ahead arriving there first.
It was not so far into the desert that the people could not have been able to go
to the nearby villages to get food as in the feeding of the 4,000 account that
probably took place on the coast south of Bethsaida. There was also a
morning wind that blew from the east, that might have given the disciples
difficulty and caused them to go ashore at Gennesaret as discussed in two of the
Gospels.
The church of Tabgha is about four miles east of the
northern beaches of Mt. Arbel. Tabgha is right around the corner from the
Gennesaret plain. Tabgha is the church commemorating the spot where the
miracle took place. One tradition places the feeding at this spot, yet
this tradition is contrary to most of the data in the Gospels.
Slide Show of Mt. Arbel and hill to the south - an
alternate theory for the site of the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000.
View from the village of Migdal down to the lower slope of Mt. Arbel, ancient Magdala on the shore at corner of lake.
View from a beach north of Tiberias looking towards Mt. Arbel and Magdala.
View from Tel Kinneret towards Mt. Arbel and across the broad plain of Gennesaret.
View from Migdal to the south.
Road Sign above the ancient site of Magdala
View from Tell Kinneret towards the Tabgha property below.
