So why don't you turn with me to Matthew chapter 12 in your scriptures this morning?

Matthew 12.

We come into another story, another miracle, another great story here in the gospel.

And much of the gospel and these miracles happen in a little town called Copernium.

If you go to Israel, that's a must stop. You've got to go

to Copernium because it's powerful for so many reasons. It's a beautiful little place right on the

northern, northwestern part of the Sea of Galilee. And by the way, that Sea of Galilee, if you're

looking for it, if you're driving around Israel, where's the Sea of Galilee? You're actually looking for the sign that says

Kennerit, which means harp. And the modern name of this lake is really what we would call it here

in the United States is Kinaret, which means harp, because it's shaped like a harp, is why they call it that.

But in the Bible times, it was known there to be the Sea of Galilee.

And that's where this little town, Copernium was.

Now, down on the lower western side was a town called Tiberius.

And that's where all the, you know, a bunch of Gentiles

and other people live. But Cabrhenium was this little Jewish community and in this beautiful

setting right on the Sea of Galilee. And in fact, I've shown you some of this footage before,

but it's this beautiful spot, that white building that we, in our drone shots that we got,

that white building is, they call it the synagogue of

Jesus because we know Jesus stood on that very spot. And we know that the miracle we're going to

read today happened in that synagogue. Now the white walls there, they weren't there during the

time of Christ. That was brought in about 100 years later, but the gray foundation that you see there

with those gray rocks, that's the original foundation.

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