Lake Tiberias (Gennesaret)
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(Another of the Sea of Galilee’s several names is “Gennesaret.”)
People gathered about Jesus in crowds, seeking healing for themselves and their loved ones from tangible, physical ailments.
Nothing wrong with that.
Particularly in an era and in a distant rural place where medicine as we know it, even of the most rudimentary kind, simply didn’t exist. You could die, or be permanently incapacitated, from minor things that we can cure today with a pill or two.
But we should be crowding around Jesus today, craving relief from our spiritual illnesses.
Too few of us do. And too few of us do so consistently.
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