Bible Location
Meaning: house of fruits · 7 cross references · Modern-day map available
Bethsaida was a fishing town near the Sea of Galilee closely associated with Jesus' ministry and several of his disciples. It is important because it stands within the gospel landscape of teaching, miracles, healing, and warning. First appears in Matt 11:21.1
Place meaning
house of fruits
Coordinates
32.91, 35.63
First appears
Matt 11:21
AI summary: Bethsaida appears across the Gospels as both an ordinary lakeside settlement and a place uniquely touched by Jesus' public work. It is linked with disciples such as Peter, Andrew, and Philip, with the feeding of the crowd in its wider region, and with the healing of a blind man. Yet it is also one of the towns rebuked for failing to respond rightly to what it had seen. That combination gives Bethsaida a distinctive role: it represents both proximity to Jesus' works and the seriousness of unbelief. The cross references present Bethsaida as a Galilean town where revelation, healing, discipleship, and accountability meet.1
Place meaning
house of fruits
Latitude
32.91
Longitude
35.63
Bible references
7
A city near which Christ fed 5,000 (Luke 9:10; comp. John 6:17; Matt. 14:15-21), and where the blind man had his sight restored (Mark 8:22), on the east side of the lake, two miles up the Jordan. It stood within the region of Gaulonitis, and was enlarged by Philip the tetrarch, who called it “Julias,” after the emperor’s daughter. Or, as some have supposed, there may have been but one Bethsaida built on both sides of the lake, near where the Jordan enters it. Now the ruins et-Tel. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.