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There could be a pretty simple scientific explanation behind one of Jesus’s most famous miracles, recent research has revealed. It seems the fishy (in all senses of the word) goings on in the Sea of Galilee may be the result of a curious natural phenomenon. The Sea of Galilee, also called Lake Tiberias or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel that is prominently featured in the Bible. Its northwestern shore is thought to be associated with a couple of Jesus’s miracles: The Miracle of Loaves and Fishes and The Miraculous Catch of Fish. In the first narrative, five loaves of bread and two sma…