Places of the Bible

Galilee

Region · region

What happened here

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The numbers are the lines below.

1 Jesus Leaves Judea toward Galilee · 27 AD
2 Jesus visits Galilee · 27 AD
3 Healing the Leper · 28 AD
4 Jesus' Message on John the Baptist · 28 AD
5 Woe to Chorazin and Bethsaida · 28 AD
6 Corn on the Sabbath · 28 AD
7 Healing Multitudes · 28 AD
8 Jesus' 1st Tour of Galilee · 28 AD
9 Anointed by a Sinner Woman · 28 AD
10 Jesus' 2nd Tour of Galilee · 28 AD
11 3rd Tour of Galilee · 29 AD
12 Second Foretelling of Death and Resurrection · 29 AD
13 Feast of Tabernacles · 29 AD
14 Lepers Healed · 30 AD
15 Discourse on the Kingdom and Other Parables · 30 AD

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Galilee, 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. The numbers are the lines below.

1 War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 1 verse
2 Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 1 verse
3 Reign of Pekah · 758 BC · 1 verse
4 Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 1 verse
5 The Annunciation · 4 BC · 1 verse
6 Joseph and Mary return from Egypt · 3 BC · 1 verse
7 Joseph and Mary return to Nazareth · 3 BC · 2 verses
8 Birth of Jesus · 3 BC · 1 verse
9 John the Baptist Begins Ministry · 26 AD · 1 verse
10 John Baptizes Jesus · 26 AD · 2 verses
11 Jesus in Capernaum · 27 AD · 2 verses
12 The Demoniac · 27 AD · 1 verse
13 First Disciples Gathered · 27 AD · 1 verse
14 Water to Wine · 27 AD · 2 verses
15 Gadarene Demoniacs · 28 AD · 1 verse
16 Healing the Man with Palsy · 28 AD · 1 verse
17 John Beheaded · 29 AD · 1 verse
18 Jesus Teaches in Perea · 30 AD · 1 verse
19 Holy Week · 30 AD · 13 verses
20 Triumphal Entry · 30 AD · 1 verse
21 The Last Supper · 30 AD · 2 verses
22 Roman Trials · 30 AD · 1 verse
23 Resurrection and Ascension · 30 AD · 5 verses
24 Crucifixion and Burial · 30 AD · 4 verses
25 Jesus ascends to Heaven · 30 AD · 1 verse
26 Saul proclaims Jesus · 38 AD · 1 verse
27 Peter preaches to gentiles in Caesarea · 38 AD · 1 verse
28 First Missionary Journey · 45 AD · 1 verse
29 Mission to Antioch in Pisidia · 45 AD · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Circuit. Solomon rewarded Hiram for certain services rendered him by the gift of an upland plain among the mountains of Naphtali. Hiram was dissatisfied with the gift, and called it “the land of Cabul” (q.v.). The Jews called it Galil. It continued long to be occupied by the original inhabitants, and hence came to be called “Galilee of the Gentiles” (Matt. 4:15), and also “Upper Galilee,” to distinguish it from the extensive addition afterwards made to it toward the south, which was usually called “Lower Galilee.” In the time of our Lord, Galilee embraced more than one-third of Western Palestine, extending “from Dan on the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, to the ridges of Carmel and Gilboa on the south, and from the Jordan valley on the east away across the splendid plains of Jezreel and Acre to the shores of the Mediterranean on the west.” Palestine was divided into three provinces, Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, which comprehended the whole northern section of the country (Acts 9:31), and was the largest of the three.

It was the scene of some of the most memorable events of Jewish history. Galilee also was the home of our Lord during at least thirty years of his life. The first three Gospels are chiefly taken up with our Lord’s public ministry in this province. “The entire province is encircled with a halo of holy associations connected with the life, works, and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.” “It is noteworthy that of his thirty-two beautiful parables, no less than ninteen were spoken in Galilee. And it is no less remarkable that of his entire thirty-three great miracles, twenty-five were wrought in this province. His first miracle was wrought at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, and his last, after his resurrection, on the shore of Galilee’s sea. In Galilee our Lord delivered the Sermon on The Mount, and the discourses on ‘The Bread of Life,’ on ‘Purity,’ on ’Forgiveness,’ and on ‘Humility.’ In Galilee he called his first disciples; and there occurred the sublime scene of the Transfiguration” (Porter’s Through Samaria).

When the Sanhedrin were about to proceed with some plan for the condemnation of our Lord (John 7:45-52), Nicodemus interposed in his behalf. (Comp. Deut. 1:16, 17; 17:8.) They replied, “Art thou also of Galilee?... Out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.” This saying of theirs was “not historically true, for two prophets at least had arisen from Galilee, Jonah of Gath-hepher, and the greatest of all the prophets, Elijah of Thisbe, and perhaps also Nahum and Hosea. Their contempt for Galilee made them lose sight of historical accuracy” (Alford, Com.).

The Galilean accent differed from that of Jerusalem in being broader and more guttural (Mark 14:70).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 63 verses

Joshua: 12:23, 20:7, 21:32
1 Kings: 9:11
2 Kings: 15:29
1 Chronicles: 6:76
Isaiah: 9:1
Matthew: 2:22, 3:13, 4:12, 4:15, 4:23, 4:25, 17:22, 19:1, 21:11, 26:32, 27:55, 28:7, 28:10, 28:16
Mark: 1:9, 1:14, 1:28, 1:39, 3:7, 6:21, 9:30, 14:28, 15:41, 16:7
Luke: 1:26, 2:4, 2:39, 3:1, 4:14, 4:31, 5:17, 8:26, 17:11, 23:5, 23:49, 23:55, 24:6
John: 1:43, 2:1, 2:11, 4:3, 4:43, 4:45, 4:46, 4:47, 4:54, 7:1, 7:9, 7:41, 7:52, 12:21, 21:2
Acts: 1:11, 9:31, 10:37, 13:31

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.