Word: capernaum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fishers of men. , . . He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. And they went to Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered the synagogue and taught. . . . -Mark, I: 17-22. In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington one day last week, a swart Assyrian-born scholar named Dr. George W. Lamsa bent over a photostat of a large block of weathered stone covered with squiggly...
...strange stone was dug up last year in the ruins of a synagog in Capernaum. Built in 200 B. C. and destroyed by Romans in 200 A. D., the synagog is believed by archeologists to be the one in which Jesus preached his first sermon after calling James and John from their nets. The inscribed stone, only one yet found which could have been in existence in Christ's time, remained untranslated until Smithsonian's Dr. Lamsa deciphered it last week. He read: As a good memorial for Zebedee, son of John, who made this pillar...