The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

*^.Matt. cognisable—a confused mass of ruins—
save only that white Synagogue in which He taught.
From its ruins we can still measure its dimensions,
and trace its fallen pillars; nay, we discover over
the lintel of its entrance the device of a pot of
manna, which may have «St. John lent its form to
His teaching there *^—a device difierent fix)m that
of the seven-branched candlestick, or that other
most significant one of the Paschal Lamb, which
seem to have been so frequent over the Synagogues
in Galilee.'
And this, then, is Capernaum—the first and the
chief home of Jesus, when He had entered on His
active work. But, on this occasion, He 'continued
there not many days.' For, already, 'the Jews'
Passover was at hand,' and He must needs keep
that feast in Jerusalem. If our former computations
are right—and, in the nature of things, it is
impossible to be absolutely certain about exact
dates—and John began his preaching in the autumn
of the year 779 from the building of Rome, or in 26
of our present reckon-*AjKtJ ing, while Jesus was