Judea in the Bible

Meaning: the praise of the Lord; confessionpar

Exact Match

John [the Immerser] was also immersing people in Aenon, near Salem [Note: These locations are thought to have been in northeastern Judea, near the Jordan River], because there was a lot of water there; so people were coming to be immersed.

Verse ConceptsJohn's BaptismJohn The BaptistWater For BaptismBaptised By JohnBaptism

So a discussion arose between John's disciples and a man from Judea, about purification.

Verse ConceptsJohn The BaptistRitual WashingDiscussionsDisciples Of John The BaptistPurifying Oneself

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

Verse ConceptsBaptism, in the GospelsJohn The BaptistAbraham, New Testament ReferencesChrist Knowing About PeopleThe Disciples ActionsChristian BaptismPharisees Concerned About ChristTelling Of JesusBaptism

(though Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples) he left Judea,

Verse ConceptsThe Disciples ActionsChristian BaptismBaptismDiscipleship

[Now to get to Galilee] it required that Jesus travel through Samaria [Note: Samaria was the next country north of Judea].

Verse ConceptsNecessityMan's Needs

For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet does not receive honor in his own country. [Note: Jesus' reference here to his "own country" means Judea, while in Matt., Mark and Luke it refers to Nazareth].

Verse ConceptsThe Witness Of ChristProphecy Ignored

Hearing that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and desired him to come down and cure his son, for he was about to die.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearFamily Death

So, Jesus stopped traveling publicly among the Jews [in Judea], but left there and went to a district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, where He remained with His disciples. [Note: Ephraim was a small town about

Verse ConceptsActing In SecretDisciples' MovementsTemporary Stay In The Wilderness

Thematic Bible



In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert of Judea;


And many crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond Jordan.

And it was in one of the days, and he was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting, who were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was for healing them.

He, having heard that Jesus was come from Judea to Galilee, went away to him, and asked him that he would go down and heal his son: for he was about to die.

This second sign Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.


And it was when Jesus finished these words he removed from Galilee, and came from the bounds of Judea beyond Jordan;

And they were strong, saying, That he stirs up the people, teaching through the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee to here.

And having risen from thence, he comes into the bounds of Judea, through the other side of Jordan: and crowds came together again to him; and, as he was accustomed, again he taught them.


In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert of Judea;

And he came into all the country round about Jordan, proclaiming the immersion of repentance for remission of sins;


And the bound went up to the house of Hoglah, and passed over from the north of the house of Arabah; and the bound went up to the stone of Bohan, son of Reuben:

In the desert, the House of Arabah, Middin, and Secacah,


And the House of the Desert, and Zemaraim, and the House of God,


There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.


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