Magdala in Biblical History

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What is Magdala?
MAG'DALA
(tower). In the chief manuscripts and versions the name is given as "Magadan." Magdala is found only in Matt 15:29. Christ came thither by boat over the Lake of Galilee after his miracle of feeding the four thousand on the mountain on the eastern side, Matt 15:39; and from thence he returned in the boat to the opposite shore. The parallel passage, Mark 8:10, has the "parts of Dalmanutha," on the western edge of the lake. The two regions or districts were probably near each other. The Magdala from which Mary Magdalene was named is perhaps identical with Migdal-el, Josh 19:38, and may be the modern el-Mejdel, a miserable little Moslem village of fifteen or twenty hovels, on the water's edge, at the south-east corner of the plain of Gennesaret.

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