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One of only two named towns Jesus specifically curses for unbelief (Matthew 11:21 / Luke 10:13), and the ONLY site in that rebuke about which the Gospels record nothing else at all — no miracle story, no visit narrated anywhere, nothing beyond the bare charge that 'most of his mighty works' happened there. ⚠ That silence is a real gap, not a settled fact: whatever was done in Chorazin went as unrecorded as it apparently went unrepented. The likely site, Khirbet Kerazeh, sits on a basalt ridge a short walk (2-3 km) north of Capernaum along the Sea of Galilee's shore, and excavations have uncovered a substantial basalt synagogue (3rd-4th century AD, likely built over an earlier one) and a Roman-Byzantine town. Basalt, not Capernaum's limestone, is the local building stone here — a harder, darker rock that may be part of why so little survives of whatever first-century structures once stood.

in the text Matt 11:21
📍 Chorazin — modern-day Khirbet Kerazeh, north of Capernaum, Israel
🗺️ No ancient-world overlay on the shelf yet for this site — a period map showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one, the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
▶ No films on the shelf yet — archaeology and geography videos get added here as Mr. Librarian finds good ones.