Ladies, can you remember where you were when your husband first proposed to you?  Men, where were you when you first found out that you and your wife were going to be parents?  What were you doing on the day that Dr. King was assassinated, or Elvis died, or the Challenger shuttle blew up?  What about when you heard that you'd gotten that job promotion?  Can you recall where you were when you got the best news of your life? Or the worst?   The most ordinary surroundings can seem suddenly memorable at a time like that.  They get seared into our memory, so that twenty years later we hear ourselves saying to our children, "I remember exactly what I was doing the day I heard..."  

I wonder if Jesus' disciples said that to each other whenever they passed through the village of Caesarea Philippi…