sepphoris was founded as the capital of the galilee. and so it was really invested, much like caesarea maritima, with all the trappings of greek or roman city life. >> narrator: recent archaeological discoveries at sepphoris challenge the conventional picture of jesus' life. >> one of the more exciting discoveries that we made at sepphoris was a magnificent roman villa with a gorgeous, gorgeous mosaic on its floor, in a banquet hall. floor, in a banquet hall. floor, in a banquet hall. the lady was dubbed "mona lisa" by the press when we found her because she is really an extraordinary depiction of a beautiful woman of roman antiquity. and the picture we get is a community very much in the mainstream, but on the high end of the scale. sepphoris was not just a city with houses and with waterrks and things like that, but it had satellite settlements around. nazareth, to all intents and purpose, was a satellite village attached to the region or municipality of sepphoris. >> the findings really are requiring us completely to rethink jesus' s

. >> trail ends at capernaum where the bible says jesus made his home by the sea of galilee. >> people will appreciate it and come and enjoy it by motivation of faith. >> you might not be able to walk on the water, but you can take a boat ride and sail off on the sea of galilee. julie stall, cab can be news z , capernaum, israel. >> the show is over, already? amazing. all right. we'll be back next week. from all of us here at "christian world news" we appreciate you and god bless you.

. >> ( choir singing ) >> "the angel gabriel was sent from god to a city of galilee named..." >> narrator: every sunday, in every corner of the world... >> "...the virgin, betrothed to a man whose name..." >> narrator: ...people gather to hear a story. >> "...and the virgin's name was mary." >> narrator: for more than 2,000 years, that story has been told and retold. >> "...and to bear a son." >> narrator: along the way, each generation has found in its telling its own meaning and interpretation. >> "'...you shall call his name jesus...'" >> narrator: that story, of a man called jesus of nazareth, a man who became jesus christ, was originally told by his first followers... >> "'...and be called the son of the most high.'" >> narrator: and then retold in accounts by later believers in the gospels. >> "the gospel according to st. luke." >> narrator: so began the building of a religion. in the first two parts, with the help of scholars and historians, we tried to reconstruct his times, and how, after his death, a small jewish sect began to spread the word. tonight, how that story was told, a