Places of the Bible
Bethsaida
City
What happened here
- Feeding of Five Thousand · 29 AD
- Healing a Blind Man at Bethsaida · 29 AD
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Bethsaida, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- First Disciples Gathered · 27 AD · 1 verse
- Woe to Chorazin and Bethsaida · 28 AD · 1 verse
- Jesus Walks on Water · 29 AD · 1 verse
- 70 Sent Out · 29 AD · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A city near which Christ fed 5,000 (Luke 9:10; comp. John 6:17; Matt. 14:15-21), and where the blind man had his sight restored (Mark 8:22), on the east side of the lake, two miles up the Jordan. It stood within the region of Gaulonitis, and was enlarged by Philip the tetrarch, who called it “Julias,” after the emperor’s daughter. Or, as some have supposed, there may have been but one Bethsaida built on both sides of the lake, near where the Jordan enters it. Now the ruins et-Tel.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 7 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.