Galileans

In the gospel of Luke 13:1-9 our Lord Jesus Christ told his followers, “There were some present at that very time who told Jesus of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

That thought can be terrifying indeed, but it should inspire us to pray for the same fearless zeal that prompted illiterate Galileans (Acts 4:12!) to voyage “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8) proclaiming the victory of Christ over death.

They should be minted to remind the world of the unrelenting resistance of the Palestinians and the Galileans.

An edict had been put forth by Julian permitting the exiled bishops of the "Galileans" to return to their "towns and provinces".

Baked fish with tahini is also common in Tiberias while the coastal Galileans prefer to replace the tahini with yogurt and add sumac on top.