Day 2 ~ Blessed Sacrament Parish Pilgrimage - Arrived in Tiberias.
After a long journey, we BSPs (Blessed Sacrament Pilgrims) arrive in Tiberias to begin our first overnight stay and acclimate to our new surroundings. 📿⛪
"AND JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL GALILEE, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING ALL KINDS
OF SICKNESS AND ALL KINDS OF DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE"
MATTHEW 4:23
Why didn't Jesus teach in Tiberias?
If you scan each of the four gospels, you will find no mention of Jesus visiting Tiberias. Even though the ruler Herod Antipas, whom Jesus dubbed "the fox" (Luke 13:32), had established his capital of the Galilean district right in Tiberias, next to the hot springs, in 19 AD.
The problem with Tiberias is that it was considered polluted. Not air pollution or water pollution. But "corpse" pollution. Tiberias had been built on the shores of the Sea of Galilee over an older town called Hamat, right over Hamat's cemetery. Because Tiberias had no comparable land, Jews from other cities continued to bring their dead to be buried there. So then, Tiberias was a cemetery, even before it was a city!