Terror and desolation reigned even in the most distant parts of Palestine, and it was not in Jerusalem only that frightful prodigies took place.  At Thirza, the towers of the prison in which the captives delivered by Jesus had been confined fell down.  In Galilee, where Jesus had travelled so much, I saw many buildings, and in particular the houses of those Pharisees who had been the foremost in persecuting our Saviour, and who were then all at the festival, shaken to the ground, crushing their wives and children.  Numerous accidents happened in the neighbourhood of the Lake of Genazareth.  Many buildings fell down at Capharnaum; and the wall of rocks which was in front of the beautiful garden of the centurion Zorobabel cracked across.  The lake overflowed into the valley, and its waters descended as far as Capharnaum, which was a mile and a half distant.  Peter’s house, and the dwelling of the Blessed Virgin in front of the town, remained standing.  The lake was strongly convulsed; its shores crumbled in several places, and its shape was very much altered, and became more like what it is at the present day.  Great changes took place, particularly at the south-eastern extremity, near Tarichea, because in this part there was a long causeway made of stones, between the lake and a sort of marsh, which gave a constant direction to the course of the Jordan when it left the lake.  The whole of this causeway was destroyed by the earthquake.  Many accidents happened on the eastern side of the lake, on the spot where the swine belonging to the inhabitants of Gergesa cast themselves in, and also at Gergesa, Gerasa, and in the entire district of Chorazin.  The mountain where the second multiplication of the loaves took place was shaken, and the stone upon which the miracle had been worked split in two.  In Decapolis, whole towns crumbled to the earth; and in Asia, in several localities, the earthquake was severely felt, particularly to the east and north-east of Paneas.  In Upper Galilee, many Pharisees found their houses in ruins when they returned from keeping the feast.  A number of them, while yet at Jerusalem, received the news of what had happened, and it was on that account that the enemies of Jesus made such very slight efforts against the Christian community at Pentecost.

A part of the Temple of Garizim crumbled down.  An idol stood there above a fountain, in a small temple, the roof of which fell into the fountain with the idol.  Half of the synagogue of Nazareth, out of which Jesus had been drive, fell down, as well as that part of the mountain from which his enemies had endeavoured to precipitate him.  The bed of the Jordan was much changed by all these shocks, and its course altered in many places.  At Macherus, and at the other towns belonging to Herod, everything remained quiet, for that country was out of the sphere of repentance and of threats, like those men who did not fall to the ground in the Garden of Olives, and, consequently, did not rise again.