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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Antipatris
Herod the Great built it on the Roman road between Jerusalem and Caesarea and named it for his father Antipater. Soldiers brought Paul there by night, under guard, after a plot against his life came out. The site is Tel Aphek.
Herod the Great built it on the Roman road between Jerusalem and Caesarea and named it for his father Antipater. Soldiers brought Paul there by night, under guard, after a plot against his life came out. The site is Tel Aphek.
Antipatris was a city built by Herod the Great and named for his father Antipater, standing on the Roman road between Jerusalem and Caesarea. Roman soldiers brought Paul there under guard on the night march to Caesarea after a plot against his life was uncovered (Acts 23:31). The site is identified with Tel Aphek, where excavations have uncovered occupation layers running from the Bronze Age through the Roman period, including a fortress from the Hellenistic and Herodian era on the same tell.
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- Acts 23:31
