The Synagogue in Capernaum

We came to Capernaum, "the town of Jesus." This is the place where he lives in his final years (Matthew 4:12-17) and does much of his ministry. It is where he heals the centurion's servant (Matthew 8:5-13), and the paralytic (Mark 2:1-12), delivers a demon-possessed man in the synagogue and heals Peter's mother-in-law (Luke 4:31-44).







The current synagogue dates from the 3rd century A.D. and sits over the original synagogue that was used in Jesus' day. We can see some of the remains of the original.