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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 8:40

But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea....

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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 9:30

[Which] when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus....

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Calvary in Naves Topical Bible

Also called GOLGOTHA, place where Jesus was crucified Mt 27:33; Mr 15:22; Lu 23:33; Joh 19:17...

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Cana in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(place of reeds) of Galilee, once Cana in Galilee, a village or town not far from Capernaum, memorable as the scene of Christ's first miracle, Joh 2:1,11; 4:46 as well as of a subsequent one, Joh 4:46,54 and also as the native place of the apostle Nathanael. Joh 21:2 The traditional site is at Kefr-Kenna, a small village about 4 1/2 miles nort...

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Canaan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ka'-nan, ka'-nan-its (kena`an; Chanaan):LITERATURE Canaan is stated in Gen 10:6 to have been a son of Ham and brother of Mizraim, or Egypt. This indicates the Mosaic period when the conquerors of the XVIIIth and XIXth Egyptian Dynasties made Canaan for a time a province of the Egyptian empire. Under the Pharaoh Meneptah, at the time of the...

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Bethphage in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(g hard) (house of figs) the name of a place on the Mount of Olives on the road between Jericho and Jerusalem. It was apparently close to Bethany. Mt 21:1; Mr 11:1; Lu 19:29...

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Bethsaida in Naves Topical Bible

1. A city of Galilee The city of Philip, Andrew, and Peter Joh 1:44; 12:21 Jesus visits Mr 6:45 Jesus cures a blind man in Mr 8:22 Jesus prophesies against Mt 11:21; Lu 10:13 -2. Desert of, east of the sea of Galilee, Jesus feeds more than five thousand people in Lu 9:10; Mt 14:13; Mr 6:32...

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Bethsaida Scripture - Mark 6:45

And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people....

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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 10:24

And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends....

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Caesarea in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Named also Sebaste (i.e. of Augustus, in whose honor Herod the Great built it in ten years with a lavish expenditure, so that Tacitus calls it "the head of Judaea".) Also Stratonis, from Strato's tower, and Palaestinae, and Maritime. The residence of Philip the deacon and his four prophesying daughters (Acts 8:40; Acts 21:8; Acts 21:16). A...

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