The crowds had found him again. Ever since Jesus had moved to Capernaum, more and more people heard about the things he was doing and had come to hear him, to be healed by him, or simply to be near him. Capernaum was not a large town, but was on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee, just south of busy roads following the fertile crescent stretching all the way from Egypt in the south to Mesopotamia in the east. It was the interstate highway system of its day and it carried traffic from every land, with every language, and every culture. As people passed by, they heard the stories of this Jesus, and many of them made the short trip to be a part of the crowd that came to hear Jesus today. So, the hill was covered with people from foreign lands, along with those from down south in Judah, whi…