The Galilee

This Galilee map frames Israel’s northern homeland as a tapestry of hills, lakes, and trade arteries that shaped both Old- and New-Testament history. The cartography shades Upper Galilee’s cedar-clad ridges beneath snow-tipped Mount Hermon, then steps down to Lower Galilee’s olive-dotted basalt bowls where “the people who were sitting in darkness saw a great light” (Matthew 4:16 cf. Isaiah 9:1). At the heart glistens the Sea of Galilee-a harp-shaped freshwater lake-around whose shores Jesus called fishermen at Capernaum, preached beside Magdala, and quelled tempests while crossing to the Decapolis (Mark 1:17; Luke 8:22-26). Ochre lines trace the Via Maris hugging the coast from Egypt to Damascus and the Jezreel-Beth-shan pass funneling caravans eastward, revealing why Galilee, though rural, pulsed with Gentile commerce. Inset contours mark Nazareth’s limestone bluff, Cana’s terraced slopes where water became wine (John 2:1-11), and Arbel’s cliffs overlooking the fertile Gennesaret plain. By juxtaposing lush valleys, Roman roads, and village waypoints, the map helps readers visualize how prophets, patriots, and the Messiah Himself moved within a compact cradle barely forty miles north-to-south-turning Galilee’s mixed farmland into the launchpad from which the good news rippled to “the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8).