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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 10:1

There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian [band],...

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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 21:16

There went with us also [certain] of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge....

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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 11:11

And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me....

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Calvary in in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(Luke 23:33). The Latin translation of the Hebrew GOLGOTHA, "the place of a skull," a place of executions. A fit place; in death's stronghold the Lord of life gave death his deathblow through death (Hebrews 2:14). There is no "mount," such as popular phraseology associates with Calvary. It was simply "a low, rounded bore hill" outside the N. g...

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Cana in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Cana of Galilee. A town where Jesus performed His first miracle, turning the water into wine, and a second one, healing the nobleman's or courtier's son at Capernaum, by a word spoken at a distance (John 2; John 4:46; John 4:54). Nathanael belonged to Cana (John 21:2); it was more elevated than Capernaum, as Jesus "went down" from it there (Jo...

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Bethphage in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("house of unripe figs"): testifying the former fertility which no longer remains; a village on the mount of Olives, on the road between Jericho and Jerusalem. Close to Bethany, E. of it, since Bethphage stands first in describing a journey from E. to W. The traditional site is above Bethany, between it and the mountain's top. Schwarz places i...

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Bethsaida in Easton's Bible Dictionary

house of fish. (1.) A town in Galilee, on the west side of the sea of Tiberias, in the "land of Gennesaret." It was the native place of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, and was frequently resorted to by Jesus (Mark 6:45; John 1:44; 12:21). It is supposed to have been at the modern 'Ain Tabighah, a bay to the north of Gennesaret. (2.) A city ne...

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Bethsaida Scripture - John 1:44

Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter....

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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 23:23

And he called unto [him] two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;...

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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 25:4

But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly [thither]....

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