Mount of the Beatitudes  Overlooks the four-mile long Plain of Gennesaret, an area famed for its fertility. The mountain is topped by a Catholic chapel built in 1939. By the Franciscan Sisters with the support of the Italian ruler Mussolini. Several times the New Testament Jesus was in this area. * Jesus taught “The Sermon on the Mount” {Matthew 5:1–12} * Healed the multitudes and faced Pharisaic condemnation. {Mark 6-7}   RETURN