Today’s passage focuses our attention on a special place by the Sea of Galilee. Where the Jordan River flows down and feeds into the sea there are three cities.They are the cities of Chorazin Bethsaida and capernum and these cities and The Villages around them make up what is called the Evangelical triangleIts called the Evangelical triangle because in this small area Jesus and his disciples lived and ministered. Day in and day out the Son of God walked among these people from Bethsaida to Chorazin from Capernaum to Bethsaida, from Chorazin to the neighboring Village and from there back again to Capernum. Their roads where his roads their Pathways were his pathways. Where they drew water from he drew water from. He was their neighbor.Here in these cities and in these Villages 75% of what’s written in the four gospels took place. And today these cities have a warning for us.Great privileges by themselves are not capable of saving anybody from the Judgment of GodGreat privileges by themselves cannot save in fact it’s quite the opposite. If the Lord has privileged you it means he’s also giving you a responsibilityIn the people that lived in those cities witness to us about a great danger that takes place when Christ comes to a person and that person Remains the Same as they were before . Jesus was born in Bethlehem and grew up in Nazareth.And when it became time for him to leave his father’s work shop and to begin openly serving people and proclaiming that the kingdom of heaven was near Jesus did not stay in Nazareth but he left his family and his close friends and moved to a little region in the Northwestern corner of the Sea of gallery to a city called capernum, which was between Chorazin and BBethsaidaAnd that time but say that had already been around for at least a thousand years

The beseda that Jesus knew was City fortified with walls and a gate it was a rich trade city with a large Market Place in which you could easily find dried fish goats wine olive oil and all kinds of produce and goods from far away places.It was a city under the control of King herod’s brother Herod Philip who built a Roman temple in the city and later renamed it in his sister’s honorWe know that Peter and his brother Andrew and Philip were from Bethsaida and probably John and his brother James as well.So you we have five local boys well known in their community, you had friends and connections. These young men left everything to go and follow Jesus.It’s interesting how that affected the people of that town. How were those young man accepted?It was there in Bethsaida that the man of that town brought to Jesus a well-known blind man and they brought him to Jesus because they knew, because they knew that Jesus rescued people and they knew that he had Heavenly power.The song how Jesus opened the eyes of the Blind and gave him sight. They heard Jesus preach in their synagogue and opened the scriptures to themThey’re just beyond the city 5,000 men came to hear the words of Jesus and they listened to him well into the evening they didn’t think to bring with them something to eat so Jesus fed them all with five loaves of bread and 2 fish.The hoes were the kinds of privileges that the people of bethsaida had.

Now for capernumWas just three or four miles to the west of bethsaida at the at the edge of the Sea of Galilee where Jesus lived. There among them he witnessed about himself saying, Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.In capernum Jesus preached daily. So many people wanted to hear Jesus that they couldn’t fit within the synagogue. And so just outside of town a large crowd hiked up to the top of a hill to hear him preach.