One of the most beloved and famous religious figures, Jesus Christ, is usually always depicted as full of understanding, enlightenment, dedication and goodwill.
Nevertheless, there are some very dark and even ominous parts of the story of Jesus, when he did not show miracles of healing and mercy, but, on the contrary, gave full vent to his anger and directly cursed and doomed entire cities to destruction (paranormal-news.ru).
This is the story of the Three Damned Cities (sometimes called the Three Damned Villages) - Korazim (Chorazin), Capernaum and Bethsaida.
They were all located around the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, in Israel, where Jesus Christ wandered, performed miracles and preached among humble fishermen.
Corazim
In the city of Corazim, Jesus lived permanently for some time or visited it frequently after he left Nazareth. It was a fairly important trading city famous for its wheat. Before he incurred the wrath of Jesus and his curse.
At first, Jesus performed miracles in public, but at the end of each sermon he invariably began to reproach the inhabitants for their unwillingness to repent of their sins.
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And although Corazim was destroyed to the ground only 300 years after the death of Jesus during a catastrophic earthquake, it is believed that all this was the result of the curse of Christ.
They tried to rebuild the city in the 5th century, but nothing happened, and in the Middle Ages the doomed city of Corazim was so iconic that it was associated with the birthplace of the Antichrist.
Already in our time, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of Korazim, including an ancient synagogue.
Ruins of an ancient synagogue in Corazim.
In addition to the ancient synagogue, ruins of black basalt were also unearthed here, which turned out to be a very interesting block with carved figures of humans and animals and a well-preserved statue of Medusa (Gorgon), which at that time for Christ and his followers was undoubtedly a sign of dark paganism.
It is curious that despite the persistent legends, Korazim is mentioned negligibly little in the Old Testament. According to some historians, there may have been a deliberate attempt to hide the information, since the angry and furious Christ did not really fit into the mythology of Christianity.
Capernaum
Capernaum was only a few kilometers from Corazim. It was a famous fishing port at the time and the main staging post on the Via Maris (seaside route), the main trade route connecting Damascus in the north and Egypt in the south.
Jesus preached a lot in the local synagogue and also performed many miracles here. This city is also notable for being home to some of Jesus' most famous disciples - the fishermen Peter, Andrew, James and John, and the tax collector Matthew.
Healing of Jairus's daughter.
Jesus not only once lived in Capernaum, he even called it his "own city", in which he healed the paralyzed centurion, and also healed Peter's mother-in-law and raised from the dead the daughter of Jairus, the head of the synagogue.
But what brought Jesus' curse on this city?
Alas, in general, the inhabitants of Capernaum did not particularly admire miracles, frankly, they were rather indifferent to them. They simply did not recognize Jesus as a savior and a man endowed with supernatural powers and, accordingly, did not want to repent of their sins.
In the end, this led Jesus into a great rage and once he allegedly cursed the city and all its inhabitants in their hearts. And soon Capernaum began to go broke. First, the fishing market shrank sharply (a consequence of a decrease in fish production?), Followed by other industries that depended on it.
By the third century AD, this city was only a miserable village "of seven houses of poor fishermen." Any attempts to repopulate the area were unsuccessful.
Ruins of Capernaum. In the background is the White Synagogue.
Bethsaida
Bethsaida was also a very wealthy and prosperous city of fishermen and the largest of the "three damned". It was once even considered the capital of the Kingdom of Gesshur (during the time of King David), and it was here that Jesus met his first disciples - the fisherman Simon-Peter and his brother Andrew.
Jesus also performed various miracles here, such as healing a blind man, as well as his famous miracle of feeding people with only two fish and three loaves.
Unfortunately for the residents of the city, the people of Bethsaida also did not want to repent of their sins and massively convert to Christianity. And then Jesus, too, in great anger cursed him. And like Corazimus, Bethsaida was completely destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in about AD 363.
Ruins of Bethsaida.
In all three cities that we looked at, Jesus Christ showed an extremely large amount of anger and rage. It is quite a shocking sight to see such a figure in this light. Jesus generally appears to be very benevolent and all-forgiving in nature.
This seemed to be the most sinister and powerful display of his real power. Neither earlier nor later did Jesus Christ show anything like this for some reason.