Study Desk

About this same time Jesus was told that Pilate had given orders for some people from Galilee to be killed while they were offering sacrifices.

Jesus replied: Do you think that these people were worse sinners than everyone else in Galilee just because of what happened to them?

On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus went along the border between Samaria and Galilee.

About an hour later another man insisted, "This man must have been with Jesus. They both come from Galilee."

But they all kept on saying, "He has been teaching and causing trouble all over Judea. He started in Galilee and has now come all the way here."

When Pilate heard this, he asked, "Is this man from Galilee?"

All of Jesus' close friends and the women who had come with him from Galilee stood at a distance and watched.

The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and watched how Jesus' body was placed in the tomb.

Jesus isn't here! He has been raised from death. Remember that while he was still in Galilee, he told you,

The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. There he met Philip, who was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter. Jesus said to Philip, "Come with me."

Three days later Mary, the mother of Jesus, was at a wedding feast in the village of Cana in Galilee.

This was Jesus' first miracle, and he did it in the village of Cana in Galilee. There Jesus showed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.

Jesus replied, "Mother, my time hasn't yet come: You must not tell me what to do." Mary then said to the servants, "Do whatever Jesus tells you to do." At the feast there were six stone water jars that were used by the people for washing themselves in the way that their religion said they must. Each jar held about twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus told the servants to fill them to the top with water. Then after the jars had been filled, he said, "Now take some water and give it to the man in charge of the feast." The servants did as Jesus told them, and the man in charge drank some of the water that had now turned into wine. He did not know where the wine had come from, but the servants did. He called the bridegroom over and said, "The best wine is always served first. Then after the guests have had plenty, the other wine is served. But you have kept the best until last!" This was Jesus' first miracle, and he did it in the village of Cana in Galilee. There Jesus showed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him. After this, he went with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples to the town of Capernaum, where they stayed for a few days. Not long before the Jewish festival of Passover, Jesus went to Jerusalem. There he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves in the temple. He also saw moneychangers sitting at their tables. So he took some rope and made a whip. Then he chased everyone out of the temple, together with their sheep and cattle. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins. Jesus said to the people who had been selling doves, "Get those doves out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace." The disciples then remembered that the Scriptures say, "My love for your house burns in me like a fire." The Jewish leaders asked Jesus, "What miracle will you work to show us why you have done this?" "Destroy this temple," Jesus answered, "and in three days I will build it again!" The leaders replied, "It took forty-six years to build this temple. What makes you think you can rebuild it in three days?" But Jesus was talking about his body as a temple. And when he was raised from death, his disciples remembered what he had told them. Then they believed the Scriptures and the words of Jesus. In Jerusalem during Passover many people put their faith in Jesus, because they saw him work miracles.

Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again.

and went to Galilee. The people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he had done.

While Jesus was in Galilee, he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick.

This was the second miracle that Jesus worked after he left Judea and went to Galilee.

Jesus crossed Lake Galilee, which was also known as Lake Tiberias.

Jesus decided to leave Judea and to start going through Galilee because the Jewish leaders of the people wanted to kill him.

Jesus said this and stayed on in Galilee.