A Biblical village where Jesus is said to have performed some of his most famous miracles really existed, and today lies in ruins only a mile from the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists believe.
In the Bible, Bethsaida was home to disciples Peter, Andrew and Philip, and was where Jesus purportedly fed the 5,000, walked on water and helped a blind man to see.
Archaeologists have been working for 32 years to find the lost city, which was eventually cursed to destruction by Jesus because residents failed to repent in spite of his miracles.
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Jesus was said to have cursed the village, warning it faced worse treatment than Sodom – a city destroyed by God in the Old Testament.
Although Bethsaida did not meet the calamitous end Jesus foretold, it was ultimately abandoned.
Abandonment is a fate worse than destruction. Be it a village or person, existence becomes quiet, with nothing to look forward to. Silence longs for attention. Moments linger, undistinguishable from eternity. Even Christ on the cross experienced it [2]:
About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).
[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8665771/Biblical-village-Bethsaida-Jesus-walked-water-finally-identified-archaeologists.html
[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2027%3A46&version=NIV, quoted without references.
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