I Appeal To Caesar!

On the fourth day their caravan crosses the Jordan River over the Roman Bridge, just before reaching the Sea of Galilee, then they head northward around the eastern side of the Sea. Saul has chosen to go a less-traveled but shorter and more dangerous route, finally reaching Damascus exhausted, but with some time saved. The road becomes steeper and more broken as it traverses the foothills of the Mount Hermon Range. In the far background, they can see the famous, snow-capped, mountainous area where Jesus is said to have been transfigured. * * * * * Mentally, Saul cannot extinguish what he has heard about Jesus’ stories and activities! This setting in Galilee and Mount Hermon refuse to let his mind think of anything else! Soon they will by-pass Caesarea-Philippi, the town considered to be the northern-most boundary for Israel. Saul knows that Jesus did not visit Damascus, but He nevertheless, had been this far north in Israel. Saul now remembers something Stephen the Martyr said about the Apostle Peter. A week before Jesus took Peter and two others up on the mountain to pray, Jesus at Caesarea- Philippi asked Peter, “Who do you say I am?”

With great passion, Peter proclaimed, “You are the

Christ, the Son of the Living God!”

“What an impossible thought!” Saul shakes his head,

doubling his fist.