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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bethsaida
		Bethsaida, which the Tetrarch Philip enlarged into a city and named Julias, after the daughter of Augustus, existed east of the river, near where it enters the lake (Josephus, Ant., XVIII, ii, 1; Bell.
		Whether another is to be admitted, depends on two questions on which the controversy mainly turns: whether Julias, though belonging politically to Gaulonitis, was comprised within the limits of Galilee (John 12:21) and whether, in Mark, vi, 45, and John, vi, 17, a direct crossing from the eastern to the western shore is intended.
		Bethsaida most probably is Bethesda, probably meaning "House of Mercy." The etymology of Bethzatha is uncertain.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02536a.htm (696 words)

	Bethsaida
		Bethsaida is known as the birthplace of three of the Apostles — Peter, Andrew and Philip.
		The palace of Bethsaida is a typical example of the palaces of the Aramean kingdoms during the biblical period; it included a central hall which served as the throne room, surrounded by eight rooms.
		The Aramean city of Bethsaida was conquered and destroyed by the Assyrian king Tiglath Pileser III during his campaign in the region in 734 BCE.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Archaeology/Bethsaida.html (1096 words)

	History
		Bethsaida is one of the most frequently mentioned towns in the New Testament, with at least three (Peter, Andrew, Philip) of the 12 apostles born there.
		Bethsaida was well known in rabbinic literature as a town located at the historic borders of the land of Israel.
		It is the CBEP's mission to excavate the ancient city of Bethsaida, research the data discernible from the remains, and disseminate the conclusions to both academic and popular audiences.
	www.unomaha.edu /bethsaida/history.htm (597 words)

	Ruins of Bethsaida Reveal the Launching Pad of Christianity
		An important part of the excavation of Bethsaida is the fact that archaeologists believe that this city was predominantly Jewish in culture despite the fact that many Gentiles lived in nearby towns.
		Bethsaida is one of three towns in the "evangelical triangle," that also included Capernaum and Chorazim, the area where Jesus performed most of his miracles.
		Bethsaida is the only one of these towns that has remained virtually unchanged since the days of Jesus.
	www.restorationfoundation.org /volume_2/23_31.htm (655 words)

	Bethsaida
		Whether another is to be admitted, depends on two questions on which the controversy mainly turns: whether Julias, though belonging politically to Gaulonitis, was comprised within the limits of Galilee (John, xii, 21) and whether, in Mark, vi, 45, and John, vi, 17, a direct crossing from the eastern to the western shore is intended.
		In the supposition: of two Bethsaidas, the western would be the home of Peter, Andrew, and Philip (John, i, 44; xii, 21), and the Bethsaida of Matt., xi, 21 and Luke, x, 13.
		Bethsaida, Bethesda, Bethzatha.) Bethesda is supported by most Greek manuscripts, still Bethzatha may be the true reading and Bethesda a corruption, as Bethsaida most probably is Bethesda, probably meaning "House of Mercy." The etymology of Bethzatha is uncertain.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/bethsaida.html (723 words)

	Bethsaida - Archeology in Israel
		Bethsaida is not one of Israel’s main archeological sites, like Hazor, Megiddo and Dan, and its name does not ring a bell immediately, except among the most dedicated archeological buffs.
		Robinson’s candidate for Bethsaida lay one and a half kilometers north off Lake Galilee, on the east of the river Jordan; in what is nowadays the Golan.
		Bethsaida’s inhabitants imported the cult from the east, and in turn they could have influenced early Israelite identity.
	www.jewishmag.com /69mag/bethsaida/bethsaida.htm (2039 words)

	Bethsaida Hermitage Trivandrum
		Bethsaida means a place of friendship, nests, healing, and sanctuary.
		Bethsaida is situated in Pulinkudy village, near Kovalam, which is 19 KM from Trivandrum International Airport.
		As a part of the Bethsaida’s eco friendly policy the few traditional people continue their activities at the beach.
	www.indiatravelite.com /accommodations1/bethsaidahermitagetrivndrum.htm (484 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - BETHSAIDA:
		The Gospels mention the village Bethsaida; Jesus sometimes stayed there; and Philip, Andrew, and Peter came from there (Matt.
		21) that Bethsaida lay in Galilee is not convincing, as Josephus and others sometimes consider portions of the eastern coast of the lake as belonging to Galilee (compare Buhl, "Geographie des Alten Palästina," p.
		The latter was probably close by the lake, while the city of Philip lay higher up, near the little plain of Batiha.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=992&letter=B (178 words)

	Looking for miracles - Haaretz - Israel News
		Bethsaida is today an existing model of such a city, which is unexampled in Israel.
		Bethsaida is situated on a tel (a large mound formed by the accumulated remains of ancient communities) 1.5 kilometers away from the northern shore of Lake Kinneret, in an area that is today part of the Jordan River Park.
		Bethsaida is the third-most frequently mentioned place in the New Testament, after Jerusalem and Capernaum.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=429586&sw=bethsaida (2896 words)

	Bethsaida - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile
		The other, el-‘Araj, is located near the northeastern shore of the lake in a grove of eucalyptus trees atop a layer of rich alluvial soil, brought down by the streams from the Golan hills.
		Bethsaida, Chorazin and Capernaum formed what has been called the "evangelical triangle," because most of Jesus’; miracles in Galilee were performed in these cities.
		Bethsaida was the home of three of Jesus’; disciples, Peter and his brother Andrew, and Philip (John 1:44).
	www.ancientsandals.com /overviews/bethsaida.htm (708 words)

	Bethsaida, Pilgrims' Crossing - Gems in Israel
		The city was founded in the tenth century BCE and was apparently destroyed in 734 BCE, by the Assyrian, Tiglath-pileser III and was later revived in the Hellenistic period (332-37 BCE).
		Rami Arav, Director of Bethsaida Excavations said, “The (Bethsaida) findings have bearing on the understanding of Biblical archaeology and they help to establish the line of history in the Bible.” According to Arav the findings are important both in terms of the New Testament and the Old Testament.
		It seems that stones from Bethsaida’s temple to Julia-Livia, the Roman emperor’s wife, were used, recycled as it were, in the fifth-century CE synagogue at Chorazin.
	www.gemsinisrael.com /e_article000001697.htm (795 words)

	Page Title
		The location of Biblical Bethsaida has been a vexed problem of Biblical scholarship for almost two hundred years, and a problem in the history of Christian pilgrimage since at least the sixth century.
		Bethsaida is mentioned seven times in the New Testament.
		But if we set aside "Bethsaida" as an uncertain factor for the moment, and examine the Biblical record in light of agreed-upon sites, we find there is substantial agreement between three of the accounts, while Luke gives us political information that seems to correlate with the geography of the other three.
	www.urantiabook.org /archive/newsletters/innerface/vol3_3/page10.html (766 words)

	Bethsaida Hermitage - An Eco Friendly Ayurvedic beach Resort
		With its fine golden sand, is in a small bay between two rocky headlands exclusively belonging to Bethsaida.
		As a part of the Bethsaida’s eco friendly policy the few traditional people continue their activities at the beach.
		Bethsaida provides a lifeguard, beach umbrellas and mats for specific needs.
	www.bethsaida-c.org /htm/serv.htm (280 words)

	The Story of Bethsaida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bethsaida is mentioned in the four Gospels and by the Roman historian Josephus.
		The program will examine Bethsaida's importance to Christians as a home to apostles, and the site of the feeding of the multitudes, the healing of a blind man, and where witnesses reported seeing Jesus walk on the waters.
		Today Bethsaida is the only place where one can actually see the remains of an entire city of the biblical era which has not been destroyed and reconstructed in intervening centuries.
	www.unotv.unomaha.edu /bethsaida/bethsite.html (489 words)

	Findings unearthed
		Findings unearthed at the ancient city of Bethsaida near the Sea of Galilee - where Jesus and his apostles ostensibly lived, and where the grand capital of a First Temple period kingdom was located - have excited tremendous attention all over the world for 17 years.
		Bethsaida is situated on a tel (a large mound formed by the accumulated remains of ancient communities) 1.5 kilometers away from the northern shore of Lake Kinneret, in an area that is today part of the Jordan River Park.
		Bethsaida is the third-most frequently mentioned place in the New Testament, after Jerusalem and Capernaum.
	www.meta-religion.com /Archaeology/Israel/findings_unearthead.htm (2626 words)

	The Bethsaida Gospel
		The word "Bethsaida" appears in Mark 6:45 and 8:22 (albeit not reproduced in the Matthew parallels - probably due to the curse of Matthew 11:21).
		Plus, if Luke had seen that Jesus was explicitly not yet in Bethsaida, she might have more easily integrated the town setting of 9:10 with the wilderness of 9:12 or might not have bothered with Bethsaida at all.
		Mark and the redactor of the Bethsaida sayings sources were working with parallel material, but differed in how they used it in their text.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /zimriel/Mark/bethsaida.html (3694 words)

	bethsaida
		Bethsaida means "house of the hunter" or "house of the fisherman" (the latter is preferable because of its location), and it simply became lost to history for 17 centuries.
		As a result, Bethsaida, which had originally been built on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, came to be situated to the north.
		Bethsaida's status as a polis, together with the temple, suggest that it was one of the centers of the Roman emperor worship cult.
	www.ourfatherlutheran.net /biblehomelands/galilee/bethsaida.htm (2570 words)

	Bible Study - Chorazin and Bethsaida
		Bethsaida was a fishing village (Bethsaida means house of fishing) on the shore of the Sea of Galilee about 2 miles / 3 kilometers east of Capernaum.
		And he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
		As quoted in the opening paragraph, Jesus Christ was well-familiar with the people of Chorazin and Bethsaida, and they of Him.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/20020117.htm (468 words)

	Bethsaida Report on the Season of 2003 by Rami Arav
		Due to the political situation, the Bethsaida excavation season was shorter than usual, it began on July 1
		The purpose of this season was to clarify and retrieve more information on several issues that were unsolved during past seasons and were needed for completion the final report on Stratum 5 for Bethsaida volume 4.
		All coins are from northern or northwestern mints which indicate ties of Bethsaida to Provincia Arabia with its capital city at Bostra or to Antioch.
	www.bibleinterp.com /excavations/bethsaida_2003.htm (1752 words)

	VEI: Bethsaida
		In Jesus’; day, Bethsaida was a fishing village on the north shores of the Sea of Galilee, according to John’s Gospel account.
		Today, Bethsaida is located almost two miles from the current shoreline, east of the Jordan River, in the Golan Heights.
		The site of ‘modern-day’ Bethsaida was once situated right on the shores of the Sea of Galilee exactly where the Bible said it had been located.
	www.ariel.org /vbethsai.htm (608 words)

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		Bethsaida Farms is an organization dedicated to offering programs with and for the animals that find their home here with our family.
		We utilize what we have to educate and enrich the public in and around our community. We strive to provide the optimal environment and devoted care-giving, in order to offer our animals the most comfortable and natural lifestyle possible.
		All of us here at Bethsaida Farms welcome you to our online site and have confidence that you will find a better understanding of what we are all about. Perhaps you and your family can be of support by partnering with us and our mission.
	www.bethsaidafarms.org (226 words)

	Bethsaida
		Pictured as the rocky foothills of nearby mountains, Bethsaida was a little village located at the north of the sea of Galilee and the home of Philip, Andrew and Simon Peter.
		Bethsaida was close to Capernaum it can be inferred that it was the fishing quarter there.
		Bethsaida was situated just inside the territory of Antipas' brother Philip, and Jesus may have felt safer there, away from Antipas' political control.
	www.latter-rain.com /background/bethsa.htm (175 words)

	Bethsaida Baptist Church - Church History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bethsaida Baptist Church had it’s humble beginning as God spoke to the hearts of men and women to provide a place of assembly to hear from God and learn, through His word, how to walk by faith in Jesus Christ.
		Bethsaida remains dedicated, one hundred and fourteen years (114) later, to the preservation of the gospel and it’s spread, to their commitment as salt and light, and to continue to ask for divine guidance.
		We are sure of this: God is as faithful and powerful today as He was in the flood, the parting of the Red Sea, the birth, life and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the New Testament Church beginning, Bethsaida’s beginning and is in it’s continued work in community and the world.
	organizations.nlamerica.com /bethsaida/history.html (252 words)

	The Bethsaida Excavations Project
		Today Bethsaida is the only place where one can actually see the remains of an entire city of the biblical era which has not been destroyed and reconstructed in intervening centuries.
		Bethsaida is one of the most frequently mentioned towns in the New Testament — the birthplace of the apostles Peter and Andrew and the home of the apostle Philip.
		The Bethsaida Excavations Project is housed a the University of Nebraska at Omaha and has a goal of excavating ancient Bethsaida and producing in the coming years and original, multi- volume study of this intriguing, ancient and mysterious city.
	www.centuryone.org /bethsaida.html (785 words)

	Urantia Book, Paper 152: Section 5 -- Back In Bethsaida
		Andrew was first up and, going for a walk by the sea, found Jesus, in company with their chore boy, sitting on a stone by the water's edge.
		But before these received word that he was back in Bethsaida, Jesus asked Andrew to assemble the twelve apostles and their associates, including the women, saying, "I desire to speak with them." And when all were ready, Jesus said:
		This spectacular episode brought an end to the early era of teaching, training, and healing, thereby preparing the way for the inauguration of this last year of proclaiming the higher and more spiritual phases of the new gospel of the kingdom -- divine sonship, spiritual liberty, and eternal salvation.
	www.theoquest.com /ubcenter/ubook/152-5.cfm (728 words)

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