Chorazin was a village in northern Galilee, two and a half miles away from Capernaum and the Sea of Galilee. The site is an excavated ruin today, but was inhabited starting in the 1st century. It is associated with modern day Kerazeh. Galilee (Arabic al-jaleel الجليل, Hebrew hagalil הגליל), meaning circuit, is a large area overlapping with much of the North District of Israel. ... Catholic church built over the house of Saint Peter Capernaum (pronounced k-pûrn-m; Hebrew/Aramaic: Kfar Nahum) was a settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. ... The Sea of Galilee with the Jordan River flowing out of it to the south and into the Dead Sea Kineret redirects here; for the Amgen drug having this tradename, see Anakinra The Sea of Galilee is Israels largest freshwater lake, approximately 53 kilometers (33 miles) in circumference, about... Excavation is the best-known and most commonly used technique within the science of archaeology. ... Rocky landscape with ruins, by Nicolaes Berchem, ca. ... The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 to 100 according the Gregorian calendar. ...

The majority of the structures are made from black basalt, a volcanic rock found locally. The main settlement date to the 3rd and 4th centuries. A significant feature is a 3rd century synagogue that was destroyed in the 4th century and rebuilt in the 5th. A mikvah, or ritual bath, was also found at the site. The handful of olive millstones used in olive oil extraction found suggest a reliance on the olive for economic purposes, like a number of other villages in ancient Galilee. Basalt Basalt is a common gray to black volcanic rock. ... Lesko synagogue, Poland A synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת ; beit knesset, house of assembly; Yiddish: שול, shul) is a Jewish place of religious worship. ... Mill stones are used in windmills and watermills for grinding wheat or other grains. ... Olive oil extraction is the process of extracting the oil present in the olive drupes for food use. ...

Chorazin, along with Bethsaida and Capernaum, were named in the New Testament gospels of Matthew and Luke as one of the cities in which Jesus' performed "mighty works". However, because these towns rejected his work, they were subsequently cursed. (Mat 11:21; Luk 10:13). Biblical scholars who accept the two-source hypothesis state that this story originally came from the Q document. Despite this textual evidence, archaeologists have yet been unsucessful in finding a settlement dating to the 1st century. John 21:1 Jesus Appears to His Disciples--Alessandro Mantovani: the Vatican, Rome. ... For other articles with similar names, see Gospel (disambiguation). ... The Gospel of Matthew (literally, according to Matthew; Greek, Κατά Μαθθαίον or Κατά Ματθαίον) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament. ... The Gospel of Luke is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus life, death, and resurrection. ... Jesus (8–2 BC/BCE to 29–36 AD/CE),[1] also known as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... The Two-Source Hypothesis is the most commonly accepted solution to the synoptic problem among biblical scholars, which posits that there are two sources to Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke: the Gospel of Mark and a lost, hypothetical sayings collection called Q. The Two-Source Hypothesis was first... The Q document or Q (Q for German Quelle, source) is a postulated lost textual source for the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke. ...

In addition to the reference in the gospels, Chorazin is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud, (Menahot, 85a) as town known for its grain. The first page of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, folio 2a The Talmud (תלמוד) is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs and history. ...

External links

• Chorazin from bibleplaces.com
• The Ancient Synagogue of Chorazin from a Jewish tourism site
• Chorazin University of Notre Dame, New Testament Professor David E. Aune
• Korazin Christian tourism site
• Ancient Chorazin Comes Back to Life by Ze’ev Yeivin of the Biblical Archaeology Society.