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    Bethsaida

    Βηθσαϊδά

    Bethsaida was a fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, notable as the hometown of several of Jesus' disciples and a place where He performed miracles.

    Where the story of Bethsaida happens Where the gazetteer locates Bethsaida, framed to them: Bethsaida. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Bethsaida
    Where the gazetteer locates Bethsaida
    verses
    7
    first named
    Matthew 11:21
    last named
    John 12:21
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    32.91°N · 35.63°E
    settlement32.91°N · 35.63°E

    At Tell (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 6 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Bethsaida in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Bethsaida was a fishing town located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It was the hometown of the disciples Philip, Andrew, and Peter (Jhn.1.44, 12:21). Jesus visited Bethsaida during His ministry and performed several miracles there, including healing a blind man (Mrk.8.22-26). Bethsaida was one of the cities, along with Chorazin and Capernaum, that Jesus rebuked for their unbelief despite the mighty works He had done in their midst (Matthew 11:21, Luke 10:13). After the miraculous feeding of the five thousand, Jesus instructed His disciples to cross over to Bethsaida while He dismissed the crowd (Mrk.6.45). The exact location of Bethsaida is debated, but it was likely situated near where the Jordan River enters the Sea of Galilee. Bethsaida's name derives from the Hebrew for "house of fishing" or "house of hunting," reflecting its primary industry. The Bible portrays Bethsaida as a place of great spiritual opportunity that largely failed to respond to Jesus' message and miracles.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Associated with

    Stands in the same events as

    The pattern

    Where Bethsaida is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 7 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSMATTHEW–JOHN7 VERSES39 books and 929 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 7 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSMATTHEW–JOHN7 VERSES39 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Bethsaida is named in 7 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 62 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 4 books.

    1. Matthew1 verse

      11:21

    2. Mark2 verses

      6:458:22

    3. Luke2 verses

      9:1010:13

    4. John2 verses

      1:4412:21

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Andrew and PeterJohnThe father of Simon Petervia AndrewSimonOne of the twelve apostles, also called the Zealot.via Petera wife of PeterWife of Peter, whose mother Jesus healedvia PeterJamesSon of Zebedee, one of the Twelve Apostlesvia PeterJohnApostle and son of Zebedeevia PeterSimon HouseSimon House is a thing attested across 4 verses, connecting 2 pageable entities.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on