Tabgha:
Church of the Loaves and Fishes is amodern building standing on the site of a fourth
century Byzantine church, built where jesus was sitting while he performed one of his best
known miracles. " And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is
a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into
the village, and buy themselves victuals. But jesus said unto them, They need not depart;
give ye them to eat. And they said unto him, we have but five loaves, and two fishes. He
said, bring them hither to me. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass,
and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and
brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they
did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve
baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and
children" (Matthew 14th 15-21) |