Places of the Bible
Caesarea
City
- Died here
- Herod Agrippa I
What happened here
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Saul proclaims Jesus · 38 AD
- Peter meets Cornelius · 38 AD
- Peter preaches to gentiles in Caesarea · 38 AD
- Herod dies · 45 AD
- Return from Second Missionary Journey · 50 AD
- Voyage from Miletus to Jerusalem · 54 AD
- Paul sent to Felix · 56 AD
- Paul appeals to Caesar · 56 AD
- Agrippa and Bernice meet Festus · 56 AD
- Paul goes before Agrippa · 56 AD
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Caesarea, 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.
- Conversion of Ethiopian Eunuch · 32 AD · 1 verse
- Peter defends Gentile salvation · 38 AD · 1 verse
- An angel rescues Peter from prison · 40 AD · 1 verse
- Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
(Palestinae), a city on the shore of the Mediterranean, on the great road from Tyre to Egypt, about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem, at the northern extremity of the plain of Sharon. It was built by Herod the Great (B.C. 10), who named it after Caesar Augustus, hence called Caesarea Sebaste (Gr. Sebastos = “Augustus”), on the site of an old town called “Strato’s Tower.” It was the capital of the Roman province of Judaea, the seat of the governors or procurators, and the headquarters of the Roman troops. It was the great Gentile city of Palestine, with a spacious artificial harbour. It was adorned with many buildings of great splendour, after the manner of the Roman cities of the West. Here Cornelius the centurion was converted through the instrumentality of Peter (Acts 10:1, 24), and thus for the first time the door of faith was opened to the Gentiles. Philip the evangelist resided here with his four daughters (21:8). From this place Saul sailed for his native Tarsus when forced to flee from Jerusalem (9:30), and here he landed when returning from his second missionary journey (18:22). He remained as a prisoner here for two years before his voyage to Rome (Acts 24:27; 25:1, 4, 6, 13). Here on a “set day,” when games were celebrated in the theatre in honour of the emperor Claudius, Herod Agrippa I. appeared among the people in great pomp, and in the midst of the idolatrous homage paid to him was suddenly smitten by an angel, and carried out a dying man. He was “eaten of worms” (12:19-23), thus perishing by the same loathsome disease as his granfather, Herod the Great. It still retains its ancient name Kaiseriyeh, but is now desolate. “The present inhabitants of the ruins are snakes, scorpions, lizards, wild boars, and jackals.” It is described as the most desolate city of all Palestine.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 16 verses
- Acts
- 8:40, 9:30, 10:1, 10:24, 11:11, 12:19, 18:22, 21:8, 21:16, 23:23, 23:33, 25:1, 25:4, 25:6, 25:13, 25:21
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.