RajahJun

Jesus Christ spent a lot of time in his ministry around the Sea of Galilee. In Luke's gospel, it is also known as Lake Gennesaret. Modern day Israelis now call it Kinneret. The lake measures just more than 21 kilometers north-south, and it is only 43 meters deep.  In the Bible, 18 of the 33 recorded miracles of Jesus were most likely done in areas surrounding the Sea of Galilee. Jesus moved around the surrounding area quite a lot. According to Matthew 4:23: Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.  It was the same lake that Jesus Christ met and asked his first disciples to join him. They were fishermen on a boat casting a net into the lake (Matthew 4: 18-21). For practical reason, Jesus needed a boat to go around the area easily. I presumed that one of the reasons Jesus invited Peter and his brother Andrew, James and his brother John to be his disciples was beca...

Lately, I began reading the Bible again because I was looking for answers to questions as to why the Covid-19 pandemic had to happen. Was there a reason for it? Did God willed it to happen to teach us all a lesson? Was it entirely our fault that it had to happen? Was this event written somewhere in the scripture like a prophetic message? I'm not sure if I can find the answer in the Bible to those questions. But I'll try. My other reason for reading the Bible again is that I wanted to re-ignite my faith in God. I guess it was faltering a bit because of what's happening today.  People, who believe in God, resorted to prayers and turned back to God when things weren't looking good. The pandemic which had raged since last year had been tough for all of us. These past years, I have not actively read the Bible and I just relied on sermons from our parish priest when we were still able to attend mass as a community. Sadly, hearing mass is now close to impossible lest you contr...