Day 1

It's difficult to describe the feeling of actually walking in historic places that we've heard about and read about all of our lives.

Looking through many layers of Roman, Jewish, Christian, Crusader and much other history makes this "journey" all the more interesting.

Today we visited locations north from Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast of Israel including:

• Caesarea where Paul was held captive for his faith (Acts 23)


• Learnt about the excavation in 1961 of the inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate which adds weight to the Biblical account of Jesus. Before this there was apparently no archeological evidence for Pilate.


• Mount Carmel - reminding us of the context between Elijah and the prophets of Baal. (1 Kings 18).


• Joppa where Peter had the vision that led to the good news of the Gospel being passed to the Roman Centurian Cornelius (Acts 10)

For the small boy in each of us: apparently the Latin word for exits from a Roman theatre is "vomitorium" and that's where we get our English word "vomit" - the crowd vomited out of the theatre after the performance.