Sea of Galilee

What this place is

• Holy site — part of the fourth-century Galilee pilgrim circuit, held sanctified by the Lord's voyages upon it

Who is recorded here

• Jesus travel · AD 29

What happened here

• Walking on the Water AD 29
• The Restoration of Peter AD 30

In art

• Christ and Apostles at the Sea of Galilee — Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1553)
• The miraculous draught of fish — Gaspar de Crayer (1630)
• Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee — Ludolf Bakhuizen (1695)
• Christ on the Sea of Galilee — Marco Ricci (1710)
• Christ at the Sea of Galilee — Alessandro Magnasco (1740)

About the place

The Sea of Galilee, also called Lake Tiberias, Genezareth Lake or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake in the world, with its elevation fluctuating between 215 and 209 metres below sea level.

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