Time of miracles in the Land of Jesus!

 Their is a book entitled ("Journey to the Land of Jesus"). guides his readers through the entire Holy Land, just as Christ Himself traveled over it during His earthly life "from Dan to Beer-sheba.  he leads them from the paths followed on the flight into Egypt to the sources of the Jordan. But in this Palestine that was then more parceled and yet less divided than it is now.  Galilee remains a privileged region where every pilgrim loves to tarry. for it was there that "the carpenter'son" became Jesus of Nazareth, and the Master chose Capernaum as "his own town." (Mt. 9:1). It was on the Sea of Galilee and o its shores that the messiah worked many of the miracles that, in our own day as well as His, astonish some and shock others.
 For those who are inclined to rational thinking like Earnest Renan, the French "Philologist " and historian," the Gospel would be acceptable if only theology would  strip it of the miracles that accompany it.  It is not too paradoxical to say that  Christ's miracles prevent rationalistic critics  from believing in his supernatural mission. Unfortunately for them, from Nazareth to Capernaum, the road of the "Good News" is strewn with miracles; it is a constellation of wonders, a "Great White Way" of the extraordinary.
 Anyone can draw up plans for a reasonable Christianity sitting in a library. On the road to Capernaum, it is impossible. When Jesus passed by on that , he upset the natural order of things. so, if the supernatural doesn't frighten you, if you enjoy seeing the face of the universe change when Christ makes a little tour before drinking the "Chalice of his Passion, well then let's go! Off to Tiberias!
 From the hills of Nazareth to the sea of Galilee.  To begin with, Here's Cana, the Market town with its white houses, surrounded by  vineyards and olive trees. That's where the famous wedding was held: Jesus changed the water into wine at His Mother's request to spare His hosts the humiliation of offering empty wine jars to their guests. It's a pleasant omen. The Lord inaugurated  His mission with a celebration, perhaps even with a song. In any case He began His public life with a first miracle that would forever save him from being seen as a gloomy killjoy, as some stiff pietists  would like Him to  be. So here a small miracle happened: water to wine. And according to St. John it was an excellent wine, better than the wine they had before. For centuries now, commentators have been trying to reconvert this wine allegorically back into water. But something surprising happened, something that apparently does not surprise the the critics. The whole world has become a little dizzy with the generous flow at that village wedding. As we push on; we  have a heavy schedule. Here's Magdala, not far from beautiful Tiberias where people  go for expensive vacations- Tiberias with its perfumes, its Palm Beach, and its gambling casino, there's Mary Magdalene, the sinful, women, who suddenly canceled Her appointment  at the  beauty parlor and was instantaneously sanctified as the Lord walked by.  Strange and wonderful! Sin understands God more quickly than virtue. This is an event in the history of religions. A women of easy virtue became a servant of the Lord at a time when Priestesses periodically became women of easy virtue.
  Close by, the crowd gathers on the shore to listen to Jesus, as He speaks to them from a boat: Father, Lord of heaven and earth, to you we offer praise; for what you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed to the merest children" (Mt. 11: 25). Soon He will come a shore and lead His audience, five thousand strong, up a mountain. There, the hungry will share endlessly multiplying
 loaves of Bread. But "not on bread alone is man to live but on every utterance that comes from the mouth of God." (Mt 4:4). This is the time to remember that Scripture is food and must be eaten at  once, like fresh bread, not like the stale bread of the exegetes or the indigestible food of the critics
who want us to eat the bread basket. First, let's come back to the waters edge where a waving fence of rushes, welcomes Jesus as He is walking along the lake and picking apostles. The blind fall to their knees, suddenly dazzled by the eruption of summer colors. All these miraculous cures also have a symbolic aspect. they are signs of the paralytic of the Jewish law who have finally by the liberating word. been freed from their fetters.