place
Capernaum
Καπερναούμ
- verses
- 16
- first named
- Matthew 4:13
- last named
- John 6:59
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 32.88°N · 35.58°E
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Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Capernaum in the text
Capernaum was a fishing village located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It served as a base for Jesus' ministry in the region and is mentioned frequently in the Gospels. After being rejected in Nazareth, Jesus made Capernaum his home (Matthew 4:13) and performed many miracles there, including healing a centurion's servant (Matthew 8:5-13) and Peter's mother-in-law (Mrk.1.29-31).
Jesus taught in the synagogue at Capernaum (Mrk.1.21; Jhn.6.59) and called several of his disciples, such as Peter, Andrew, James, and John, from the village (Mrk.1.16-20). Despite the numerous miracles and teachings, the people of Capernaum did not repent, leading Jesus to rebuke the city for its unbelief (Matthew 11:23; Luke 10:15).
The ruins of ancient Capernaum have been excavated, revealing the remains of a synagogue dating to the 4th or 5th century AD, built on the foundation of an earlier synagogue from the time of Jesus. The site also includes the remains of a house that may have belonged to Peter.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Capernaum is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
16 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Matthew (4), Mark (3), Luke (4) and John (5).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 16, across 4 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Matthew 8Capernaum is where Jesus heals the centurion’s servant and enters Peter’s household.
- Matthew 11Capernaum is told that its hoped-for lifting up will become a bringing down to Hades.
- Mark 2Capernaum receives Jesus into a house so crowded that a paralytic arrives through the roof.
- Mark 9In Capernaum, Jesus questioned the disciples about their argument over greatness.
- Luke 4Capernaum hears Jesus teach, sees a demon expelled, and brings its sick to Him.
- Luke 7Capernaum is where a centurion’s dying servant is healed by a word.
- John 2Capernaum received Jesus, His mother, brothers, and disciples for a few days after the wedding.
- John 4Capernaum was where a royal official’s son lay sick before Jesus declared that he would live.
1 more chapter, from John 6 to John 6
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