Children ride bicycles along a breakwater by the Sea of Galilee in January 2024. Getty Images
JERUSALEM - The sun was already starting to set over the Sea of Galilee as my wife and I arrived at the gates of Capernaum, the lakeside village where Jesus started his ministry and recruited his first disciples. But the holy site was closed. “Visiting hours: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm”, read the sign. It was undeniably already 4:30pm, but we’d travelled many miles to be here, so we buzzed the intercom. “Where have you come from?” asked the disembodied voice. “England?!” they replied with surprise. “Come in!”
