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ministry with a gift of any amount. Thank you. We are in Luke chapter 4, verses 31 through 41 Jesus,

and demons, if you've got a Bible, you can go there and find it. Here is Luke's gospel. We have

seen much of Jesus' early ministry in and around Nazareth. Last week, a little earlier in Luke 4,

we saw that Jesus was a prophet without honor in his own hometown. He was kicked out of Nazareth,

basically people tried to put him to death. And so this week, he relocates his ministry headquarters

to a town called Capernum. It's the hometown of Simon Peter. It's in the region of Galilee around

the Sea of Galilee, and much of Jesus' ministry is going to take place there all the way up until

Luke chapter 19. And at that point, he will set his face toward Jerusalem and the scene will shift.

So it's helpful to get an idea of the topography, the region around the Sea of Galilee and the small

towns therein, including Capernum, or around a great freshwater lake. There's a lot of fishing,

and then hills around it that are filled with farming. I'll give you a picture just to get an idea

of the Sea of Galilee. I don't know about you. I presumed wrongly that the Sea of Galilee was actually

quite small. This was a photo we took from a boat we were on this summer. It's an enormous

body of water, 13 miles by 8 miles, and the Sea of Galilee, as it is today, is actually smaller

likely than it was in the days of Jesus, has more people have moved into the area, and they've

needed more water. The water line has actually gone down. So think enormous freshwater lake

surrounded by fertile hill country and farming. And there we find this very important little town,

Capernum, dozens, hundreds of people. That's where we pick up the story in Luke chapter 4, verses 31

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