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Capronium, the name is constructed of two Hebrew words, Kfa Nahum's village.

Interestingly enough, Nahum means the comforter. We're not sure if we're talking about Nehem the Prophet or the

founder of the village, but we know one thing. The word comfort fits very

well to the appearance of Jesus in that town during the first century.

Capurnium was founded in the first century BC when the Jewish people finally returned back to live in Galilee.

For hundreds of years Jews were absent from Galilee simply because they were not allowed to live here by the foreign ruling powers of this area.

Jews lived here throughout the First Temple period throughout the Old Testament era. In fact, they surrounded the entire

sea of Galilei. On our side, it was known as the land of Zebulun and the land of Nefftali, those two Hebrew tribes.

On the other side, it was the land of Gad and the half of Manashe that never crossed the

River Jordan to stay here.

Interestingly enough, in the Old Testament the

entire sea of Galilee is surrounded by Jewish people, by Israelites, yet in the time

of Jesus it's a completely different story.

So in the time of Jesus, the Jews that live here by the sea of Galilee

they live in a very limited geographical area,

surrounded basically by pagans who worship many

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