Capernaüm

Capernaüm, meaning 'the village of Nahum,' was in the time of our Saviour a prosperous place, and though called 'his own city,' was one of the three which he upbraided 'because they repented not.' The site generally accepted by pilgrims and travellers from the 4th century onwards is that known as Tell Hum, on the north-western coast of the Sea of Galilee, or Lake of Gennesareth. Its ruins of black basaltic stone cover an area of about half a mile long by a quarter wide, and there are traces of a great synagogue. Conder believes that this place has no claim to be regarded as the real site of Capernaum, but that Khan Minieh, beside the spring Et Tinel, in the north-east corner of the plain of Gennesareth, is a much more likely site.