The Church of the Apostles, built atop the home of Jesus' first disciples, was believed by many to be merely a myth. But ...

When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum ...

collecting imperial taxes “at the nexus of interregional roads” and traffic on the Sea of Galilee. Capernaum’s synagogue, the core civic space, was where fishermen might spread messianic ideas.