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    Bethsaida

    Βηθσαϊδά

    Bethsaida was a fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, notable as the hometown of several of Jesus' disciples and a place where He performed miracles.

    Where the story of Bethsaida happensWhere the gazetteer locates Bethsaida, framed to them: Bethsaida. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Bethsaida
    Where the gazetteer locates Bethsaida
    verses
    7
    first named
    Matthew 11:21
    last named
    John 12:21
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    32.91°N · 35.63°E
    settlement32.91°N · 35.63°E

    At Tell (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 6 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Bethsaida in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Bethsaida was a fishing town located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It was the hometown of the disciples Philip, Andrew, and Peter (Jhn.1.44, 12:21). Jesus visited Bethsaida during His ministry and performed several miracles there, including healing a blind man (Mrk.8.22-26). Bethsaida was one of the cities, along with Chorazin and Capernaum, that Jesus rebuked for their unbelief despite the mighty works He had done in their midst (Matthew 11:21, Luke 10:13). After the miraculous feeding of the five thousand, Jesus instructed His disciples to cross over to Bethsaida while He dismissed the crowd (Mrk.6.45). The exact location of Bethsaida is debated, but it was likely situated near where the Jordan River enters the Sea of Galilee. Bethsaida's name derives from the Hebrew for "house of fishing" or "house of hunting," reflecting its primary industry. The Bible portrays Bethsaida as a place of great spiritual opportunity that largely failed to respond to Jesus' message and miracles.

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    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 4 books.

    1. Matthew1 verse

      11:21

    2. Mark2 verses

      6:458:22

    3. Luke2 verses

      9:1010:13

    4. John2 verses

      1:4412:21

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    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Bearability Comparison and Jesus Denouncing, and 1 moreChorazinTown in Galilee; rebuked by Jesus for unbeliefvia Andrew and PeterJohnThe father of Simon Petervia Miracles PerformedCapernaumTown in Galilee; center of Jesus' ministryvia Jesus DenouncingJesusThe Son of God and Savior of the world.via AndrewJohn’s hearingJohn’s hearing is an event attested across 2 verses, connecting 2 pageable entities.via Bearability ComparisonJudgmentJudgment is a concept gathering 81 labelled instances in the text.via Bearability ComparisonSidonPhoenician city; home of Jezebelvia AndrewSimonOne of the twelve apostles, also called the Zealot.via Bearability ComparisonSodomWicked city destroyed by God for its sins

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    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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