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Up on a hill behind the Church of Mensa Christi, all on the North Shore, is the Mount of Beatitudes where Jesus gave "the Sermon on the Mount", and there, down below is the home town (for a while, at least) of Peter and Andrew - [[Capernaum]], with its imposing and truly gorgeous, white limestone remains of the 3rd century Synagogue, built on the remains (black basalt) and general floor plans of the First century synagogue that Jesus frequented and sang out the "Prophetic portion" from the Scroll of Isaiah.
 
Up on a hill behind the Church of Mensa Christi, all on the North Shore, is the Mount of Beatitudes where Jesus gave "the Sermon on the Mount", and there, down below is the home town (for a while, at least) of Peter and Andrew - [[Capernaum]], with its imposing and truly gorgeous, white limestone remains of the 3rd century Synagogue, built on the remains (black basalt) and general floor plans of the First century synagogue that Jesus frequented and sang out the "Prophetic portion" from the Scroll of Isaiah.
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And to the right, on the Eastern shore, there are sights to see, such as the only place where the herd of Swine could have rushed down the slope into the sea without having fallen off the otherwise-all-around sharp and tall precipice, the slope of [[Gadarene]] where Jesus drove out the demons that then entered the swine.  
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And to the right, on the Eastern shore, there are sights to see, such as Cursi, with its ruins of a Byzantine monastery, the only place where the herd of Swine could have rushed down the slope into the sea without having fallen off the otherwise-all-around sharp and tall precipice, the slope of [[Gadarene]] where Jesus drove out the demons that then entered the swine.
    
===Tourism can be "military"===
 
===Tourism can be "military"===

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