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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Bethsaida
A fishing town on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee, home to Peter, Andrew and Philip. Jesus rebuked it more sharply than any of the Galilean towns that would not repent.
A fishing town on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee, home to Peter, Andrew and Philip. Jesus rebuked it more sharply than any of the Galilean towns that would not repent.
Bethsaida was a fishing town on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee, home to Peter, Andrew, and Philip (John 1:44), and the target of Jesus's sharpest rebuke among the unrepentant Galilean towns (Matthew 11:21; Luke 10:13). Archaeologists have long debated its exact location between two mounds, et-Tell and el-Araj; recent excavations at el-Araj, closer to the ancient shoreline, have uncovered a Roman bathhouse, an early church, and first-century remains that many scholars now think settle the question in its favor.
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- Matthew 11:21
- Mark 6:45
- Mark 8:22
- Luke 9:10
- Luke 10:13
- John 1:44
- John 12:21
