Caesarea
This map shows the city known as Caesarea in the land of
ancient Israel.
Caesarea was located along the coast of the Mediterranean
Sea. Herod the Great built the city up and made it very
strong and he named it Caesarea in honor of Augustus
Caesar. Philip the evangelist lived here, and so did
Cornelius the Roman centurion. Caesarea was roughly...
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CAES-A-RE`A (for Caesar), An important city on the
Mediterranean coast of Palestine, and in line ot travel from
Tyre to Egypt. Anciently called Strato`s Tower. Built by Herod
the Great, and named in honor of Caesar Augustus. Political
capital of Palestine. Residence of Philip, Acts viii, 40; and
Cornelius, Acts x, xi, 1-18. You can visit the s...
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ses-a-re'-a, se-za-re'-a (Kaisareia):
(1) Caesarea Palestina (pal-es-ti'na). The ancient name in
the Arabic form Qaisariyeh still clings to the ruins on the
sea shore, about 30 miles North of Jaffa. It was built by
Herod the Great on the site of Strato's Tower (Ant., XIII,
xi, 2; XV, ix, 6), and the name Caesarea Sebaste was given
it in honor ...
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A seaport in Israel
-The home of
Philip
Ac 8:40; 21:8
Cornelius, the centurion
Ac 10:1,24
Herod
Ac 12:19-23
Felix
Ac 23:23,24
-Paul conveyed to, by the disciples to save him from his
enemies
Ac 9:30
-By Roman soldiers to be tried by Felix
Ac 23:23-35...
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Ac 8:40; 9:30; 10:1,24; 11:11; 12:19; 18:22; 21:8,16;
23:23,33; 25:1,4,6,13 was situated on the coast of Israel,
on the line of the great road from Tyre to Egypt, and about
halfway between Joppa and Dora. The distance from Jerusalem
was about 70 miles; Josephus states it in round numbers as 600
stadia. In Strabo's time there was on this point ...
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(Palestinae), a city on the shore of the Mediterranean, on
the
great road from Tyre to Egypt, about 70 miles
northwest of
Jerusalem, at the northern extremity of the plain of
Sharon. It
was built by Herod the Great (B.C. 10), who named it
after
Caesar Augustus, hence called Caesarea Sebaste (Gr.
Sebastos =
"Augustus"), on the site of an o...
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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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There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a
centurion of the band called the Italian [band],...
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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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And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of
Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples,
saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?...
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