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The Sea of Galilee is an attraction for Christian pilgrims who visit Israel to see the places where Jesus performed miracles according to the New Testament. Alonzo Ketcham Parker, a 19th-century American traveler, called visiting the Sea of Galilee "a 'fifth gospel' which one read devoutly, his heart overflowing with quiet joy". [48]
It lay near the place where the Jordan enters the Sea of Galilee. [21] Julias/Bethsaida was a city east of the Jordan River, in a "desert place" (that is, uncultivated ground used for grazing), if this is the location to which Jesus retired by boat with his disciples to rest a while (see Mark 6:31 and Luke 9:10).
Nazareth is the largest Arab city in Israel. [115] In 2009, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics reported that Nazareth's Arab population was 69% Muslim and 30.9% Christian. [116] The greater Nazareth metropolitan area had a population of 210,000, including 125,000 Arabs (59%) and 85,000 Jews (41%).
In the New Testament accounts, the principal locations for the ministry of Jesus were Galilee and Judea, with activities also taking place in surrounding areas such as Perea and Samaria. [1] [4] The gospel narrative of the ministry of Jesus is traditionally separated into sections that have a geographical nature. Galilean ministry.
Map of Roman Israel showing Gadara and Gerasa. Gergesa, also Gergasa ( Γέργεσα in Byzantine greek) or the Country of the Gergesenes, is a place on the eastern ( Golan Heights) side of the Sea of Galilee located at some distance to the ancient Decapolis cities of Gadara and Gerasa. Today, it is identified with El-Koursi or Kursi.
The Western Galilee is a modern Israeli term, which in its minimal definition refers to the coastal plain just west of the Upper Galilee, also known as Plain of Asher or Plain of the Galilee, which stretches from north of Acre to Rosh HaNikra on the Israel-Lebanon border, and in the common broad definition adds the western part of Upper Galilee ...
The province's Jewish population was now mainly concentrated in the Galilee, the coastal plain (especially in Lydda, Joppa, and Caesarea), and smaller Jewish communities continued to live in the Beth She'an Valley, the Carmel, and Judea's northern and southern frontiers, including the southern Hebron Hills and along the shores of the Dead Sea.
Mount Tabor, sometimes spelled Mount Thabor (Arabic جبل طابور; Hebrew: הר תבור or Har Tavor ), is a large hill of biblical significance in Lower Galilee, Northern Israel at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 18 kilometres (11 miles) west of the Sea of Galilee . In the Hebrew Bible ( Joshua, Judges ), Mount Tabor is the site of ...