Tabgha

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Tabgha is the location of a pair of sites traditionally associated with Jesus and fish. The name is likely a corruption of the Greek name, Heptaegon (Seven Springs).

The first site is the Church of the Primacy of St. Peter, the traditional location where Jesus after his resurrection appeared to the apostle Peter and caused a miraculous catch of fish. Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved him (Matthew 16) and Jesus' commandment to feed his sheep is cited as the start of the Catholic tradition of Peter's leadership of the church that has continued through the succession of Popes.

The second site is the Church of the Multiplication, a German Benedictine Church from 1936 built over a flat rock called the Mensa Christi (Table of Christ) that is the traditional location of Jesus' miraculous feeding of 5,000 men with only five loaves of bread and two fish (Matthew 14).

My mother echoed the skeptical sentiments of many in the group in remarking that, "That rock had nothing to do with Jesus."

05/25/2011 10:58 IDT Tabgha	05/25/2011 10:59 IDT Church of St. Peters Primacy
05/25/2011 10:59 IDT Olive press	05/25/2011 10:59 IDT Olive press
05/25/2011 11:00 IDT Olive press	05/25/2011 11:00 IDT Olive press
05/25/2011 11:04 IDT Remnant	05/25/2011 11:04 IDT Courtyard
05/25/2011 11:04 IDT Gargoyle	05/25/2011 11:05 IDT Church of St. Peters Primacy
05/25/2011 11:06 IDT Church of St. Peters Primacy	05/25/2011 11:06 IDT Church of St. Peters Primacy
05/25/2011 11:13 IDT Church of St. Peters Primacy	05/25/2011 11:14 IDT Byzantine mosaic - feed my sheep
05/25/2011 11:16 IDT Courtyard	05/25/2011 11:17 IDT Column remnants
05/25/2011 11:17 IDT Buses	05/25/2011 11:28 IDT Church of the Multiplication
05/25/2011 11:28 IDT Pathway	05/25/2011 11:29 IDT Olive press
05/25/2011 11:30 IDT Discussion	05/25/2011 11:36 IDT Spring
05/25/2011 11:36 IDT Pathway	05/25/2011 11:37 IDT Mass
05/25/2011 11:38 IDT Blessing plaque	05/25/2011 11:38 IDT Church of the Multiplication
05/25/2011 11:39 IDT Church of the Multiplication	05/25/2011 11:41 IDT Mensa Christi - table of Christ
05/25/2011 11:41 IDT Mensa Christi	05/25/2011 11:43 IDT Sea of Galilee
05/25/2011 11:45 IDT Me and mom at the Sea of Galilee	05/25/2011 11:47 IDT Church of the Multiplication
05/25/2011 11:47 IDT Sea of Galilee	05/25/2011 11:49 IDT Back to the bus
05/25/2011 11:50 IDT ...not actions of the past...	05/25/2011 11:51 IDT Building
05/25/2011 11:52 IDT Clergy	05/25/2011 11:54 IDT Gate with Crusader cross

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