Chorazin and Bethsaida
The towns of Chorazin and Bethsaida were near Capernaum, the city that Jesus apparently used as a home base during his great ministry in Galilee of over two years’ duration. The Jewish inhabitants of those towns saw Jesus perform powerful works that would have moved the idolatrous inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon to repentance. For example, it was in the area of Bethsaida that Jesus miraculously fed more than 5,000 people and later cured a blind man.—Mt 14:13-21; Mr 8:22; Lu 9:10-17.
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Locations on the Map
Sidon
ABILENE
Damascus
Zarephath
Mt. Hermon
PHOENICIA
Tyre
Caesarea Philippi
ITURAEA
TRACHONITIS
Ptolemais (Acco)
GALILEE
Chorazin
Bethsaida
Capernaum
Cana
Magadan
Sea of Galilee
Gergesa
Raphana
Sepphoris
Tiberias
Hippos
Dion
Nazareth
GADARA
Abila
Dor
Nain
Gadara
DECAPOLIS
Caesarea
Scythopolis (Beth-shean)
Bethany across Jordan?
Pella
SAMARIA
Aenon
Salim
Sebaste (Samaria)
Gerasa
Sychar
Mt. Gerizim
Jacob’s Well
Antipatris (Aphek)
PEREA
Joppa
Plain of Sharon
Arimathea
Lydda (Lod)
Ephraim
Jordan River
Philadelphia (Rabbah)
Jamnia (Jabneh)
Ramah
Jericho
Emmaus
Jerusalem
Bethphage
Ashdod, Azotus
Bethlehem
Bethany
Qumran
Ascalon (Ashkelon)
JUDEA
Herodium
Gaza
Hebron
Wilderness of Judea
Salt Sea (Dead Sea)
Machaerus
IDUMEA
Masada
Beer-sheba
NABATAEA
ARABIA