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Bethphage in Easton's Bible Dictionary

house of the unripe fig, a village on the Mount of Olives, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho (Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29), and very close to Bethany. It was the limit of a Sabbath-day's journey from Jerusalem, i.e., 2,000 cubits. It has been identified with the modern Kefr-et-Tur....

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Bethsaida in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(house of fish) of Galilee, Joh 12:21 a city which was the native place of Andrew, Peter and Philip, Joh 1:44; 12:21 in the land of Gennesareth, Mr 6:46 comp. Mark 6:53 and therefore on the west side of the lake. By comparing the narratives in Mr 6:31-53 and Luke 9:10-17 it appears certain that the Bethsaida at which the five thousand were fe...

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Bethsaida Scripture - Mark 8:22

And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him....

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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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