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  Illustration. First-century ruins long identified as “Peter’s House” may actually stand where the first apostle’s home stood!


WHERE THE ACTION TAKES PLACE

Mark’s Gospel traces Jesus’ ministry in Galilee and leads us to its climax in Judea. The Bible tells us Peter’s fishing business was in Galilee, along the shore of its famous sea. One of the most fascinating of recent archaeological explorations indicates that a structure in Capernaum long identified as “Peter’s House” is actually erected on the ruins of a large home that was possibly occupied by the fisherman disciple!


Richards, Lawrence O. The Bible Reader’s Companion. electronic ed. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1991. Print.
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