{"id":20212,"date":"2015-05-10T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=20212"},"modified":"2015-05-10T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T16:33:18","slug":"magdala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/05\/magdala.html","title":{"rendered":"Magdala"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20213\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/05\/sea_of_galilee.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20213\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/05\/sea_of_galilee.jpg\" alt=\"Political map of Galilee\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magdala and other sites around the Sea of Galilee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the high points, for me, of our recent visit to Israel was the chance to walk about the newly discovered synagogue at Magdala. \u00a0I had never been on the site before, though I had passed by it many times.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me extremely likely to have been a place that Jesus visited. \u00a0(\u201c<span style=\"color: #001320;\">And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.\u201d \u00a0[Matthew 4:23])<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an article, chosen essentially at random, about Magdala and what\u2019s been found there:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2013\/01\/stunning-find-from-time-of-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2013\/01\/stunning-find-from-time-of-jesus\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 One of the high points, for me, of our recent visit to Israel was the chance to walk about the newly discovered synagogue at Magdala. \u00a0I had never been on the site before, though I had passed by it many times. \u00a0 It seems to me extremely likely to have been a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Magdala<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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