Places of the Bible

Judea

Region · region

Died here: James (Son of Zebedee)

What happened here

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

Jesus Leaves Judea toward Galilee · 27 AD
Good Samaritan Parable Taught · 29 AD
Herod kills James · 40 AD
Herod imprisons Peter · 40 AD
An angel rescues Peter from prison · 40 AD
Voyage from Miletus to Jerusalem · 54 AD

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Judea, 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 John's birth predicted · 5 BC · 1 verse
2 Birth of John the Baptist · 4 BC · 1 verse
3 Wise Men Visit Herod · 3 BC · 2 verses
4 Joseph and Mary return from Egypt · 3 BC · 1 verse
5 Joseph and Mary return to Nazareth · 3 BC · 1 verse
6 Birth of Jesus · 3 BC · 1 verse
7 John the Baptist Begins Ministry · 26 AD · 4 verses
8 Jesus visits Galilee · 27 AD · 2 verses
9 John the Baptist Witnesses · 27 AD · 1 verse
10 Healing the Man with Palsy · 28 AD · 1 verse
11 Healing Multitudes · 28 AD · 2 verses
12 Jesus' 1st Tour of Galilee · 28 AD · 1 verse
13 Widow's Son Resurrected · 28 AD · 1 verse
14 Feast of Tabernacles · 29 AD · 1 verse
15 Jesus Teaches in Perea · 30 AD · 2 verses
16 Holy Week · 30 AD · 3 verses
17 Olivet Discourse · 30 AD · 3 verses
18 Lazarus Raised from the Dead · 30 AD · 1 verse
19 Jesus ascends to Heaven · 30 AD · 1 verse
20 The Holy Spirit comes · 30 AD · 1 verse
21 Peter preaches at Pentecost · 30 AD · 1 verse
22 Saul persecutes the church · 31 AD · 1 verse
23 Saul proclaims Jesus · 38 AD · 1 verse
24 Peter preaches to gentiles in Caesarea · 38 AD · 1 verse
25 Peter defends Gentile salvation · 38 AD · 1 verse
26 Disciples first called Christians · 40 AD · 1 verse
27 Jerusalem Council · 46 AD · 1 verse
28 Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD · 1 verse
29 Paul goes before Agrippa · 56 AD · 1 verse
30 Paul's Journey to Rome · 56 AD · 1 verse
31 Paul's First Roman imprisonment · 57 AD · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

After the Captivity this name was applied to the whole of the country west of the Jordan (Hag. 1:1, 14; 2:2). But under the Romans, in the time of Christ, it denoted the southernmost of the three divisions of Palestine (Matt. 2:1, 5; 3:1; 4:25), although it was also sometimes used for Palestine generally (Acts 28:21).

The province of Judea, as distinguished from Galilee and Samaria, included the territories of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Dan, Simeon, and part of Ephraim. Under the Romans it was a part of the province of Syria, and was governed by a procurator.

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

Named in 44 verses

Ezra: 9:9
Matthew: 2:1, 2:5, 2:22, 3:1, 3:5, 4:25, 19:1, 24:16
Mark: 1:5, 3:7, 10:1, 13:14
Luke: 1:5, 1:65, 2:4, 3:1, 5:17, 6:17, 7:17, 21:21
John: 3:22, 4:3, 4:47, 4:54, 7:3, 11:7
Acts: 1:8, 2:9, 2:14, 8:1, 9:31, 10:37, 11:1, 11:29, 12:19, 15:1, 21:10, 26:20, 28:21
Romans: 15:31
2 Corinthians: 1:16
Galatians: 1:22
1 Thessalonians: 2:14

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.