Day 16

Today we took a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, which is approximately 7 miles across and 12 miles long. There are mountains almost all the way around the Sea. It was a fairly calm day with just a little bit of breeze.

We stood on the hillside where Jesus gave the sermon on the mount, and read aloud Matthew chapter 5 to chapter 7. It was fun to picture a “great crowd” there listening to Jesus. Today it was very hot out (91 degrees, sunny and humid) and I found it hard to focus on reading of the passage the whole time. I wondered if the crowd in Jesus’s day was faced with the same difficulty. Whatever tries to distract us from Jesus, Jesus is still deserves our whole attention.