Of Capernaum.
THis city was so called from the pleasant and comfortable scituation of it. In the Hebrew text Mathew cals it Caphar∣nacum, i. The town of comfort; being deriued of Nocham, i. Con∣solation. In this town our Sauior dwelt after he had left Naza∣reth, and in it wrought many miracles, as the healing of the sick, casting out of diuels, and such like, whereof you may read, Mat. 8. Mark 1. Luke 5.7. Iohn 4. It stood in the land of Genesareth, vpon the West and North side of Iordan, in an angle of land ioyning to the sea of Galile, 56 miles from Ierusalem Northward, in the tribe of Issacher; and as it is thought by some, iust in the middest of the twelue tribes. Mat. 9. calls it the city of our Sauior. And that Christ was no stranger, but an inhabitant of this city, it is manifest, Mat. 17. where Christ when he gaue tribute to the ma∣gistrats of this city) asked Peter saying, Of whom doe the Kings of the earth take tribute? Peter said, Of strangers: Then, quoth hee, the children are free; yet neuerthelesse, &c. From whence may be gathe∣red that he was no stranger, but an inhabitant in Capernaum. It had vpon the Northside of it the three Tribes, Nepthalim, Aser, and Zabulon; vpon the South, Benjamin, Iuda, Dan, and Sime∣on; vpon the West, Issacher, Ephraim, and the halfe Tribe of Ma∣nasses;