![Vassily Polenov, "On the Tiberiad Lake" (1888) Lake of Tiberias is one of the names for the Sea of Galilee. (Click to enlarge.)](https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/186/2015/04/1024px-Polenov_na_tiver_ozere-300x157.jpg)
Lake of Tiberias is one of the names for the Sea of Galilee.
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It seems fairly obvious that Peter, though a fisherman by trade and a man who spent much of his working life out in a boat on the lake, couldn’t swim.
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The BYU students who study in Israel have long had a traditional song that they sing when they’re in the Galilee: “I swam today where Jesus walked.”
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It’s striking that even Jesus sometimes needed a bit of time alone, to pray and to recharge his batteries.