Did Jews and Christians continue worshipping together in Capernaum before the late 400s, when a Byzantine church faced off against a limestone synagogue?

THE SCRIPTURES & ART: The exorcism in the Synagogue of Capernaum is depicted in this Romanesque fresco from Lambach Abbey in Upper Austria.

Capernaum, which started offering care in 2011 and formally became a nonprofit using the Capernaum name in 2013, was organized by South Lyon area churches: Crossroads Community Church, First ...

Only three churches from before that time have been discovered by archaeologists: a house church in Capernaum, a house church in eastern Syria, and now this structure in Megiddo.

The mosaic was found on the floor of church ruins that experts say was constructed to honor Peter's birthplace in what is now el-Araj in northern Israel, but was the biblical city of Bethsaida.

The heady world of the early Christians began with Jewish followers of Jesus and later became dominated by Romans attracted to the still-new religion.