Bethsaida
Town
Location disputed At Tell: about 130 km (80 miles) north of Jerusalem
Where Scholars Place It
- At Tell Possible
- Al Araj Possible
- El Mess’adiyye Less likely
- Tabgha Less likely
Bethsaida in the Bible Dictionary · Another Bethsaida (town · Matthew 11:21)
Named in 3 Verses
- Mark 6:45 And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.
- Mark 8:22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
- Luke 9:10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
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