A Triangle?

Imagine this.  You settle in a city.  And, after speaking up in church the people let you speak often, even following you home to hear what more you have to say.  Watching you.  Asking miracles of you.  Begging you to help them get better.  But, do they change their ways, see the light, pronounce a change in lifestyle so that they can become more like you?

Not for Jesus...not in Capernaum.

It's easy to forget that Capernaum accepted Jesus and his teachings, yet it didn't see him as the Messiah.  Matthew 11 shares how Jesus spoke a 'woe' on three cities.  And, Capernaum was one of them.

Here's an curious fact, if you look at those cities they create a triangle.  The book, A Visual Guide To Bible Events, draws the triangle to include Gennesaret, and calls it "the evangelical triangle."

Interesting.  I have never heard this term before. 

This triangle was, after all, the countryside around Capernaum.  Matthew 11 tells us enough miracles were done in those towns that they should have had a change of heart toward God.

It's tough when the folks you pour your efforts into just don't get it.

But, the story doesn't end there.  People from different places got the word...check out Matthew chapter four.  How did they get the word?

Well, the "triangle" laid alongside the international highway, where visitors from all over the world heard and saw those same miracles and teachings...they got it...they spread the word...they sought out change.