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



THEN in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the desert country of Judea,


And great multitudes followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

And on a certain day it happened that he was teaching, and there were sitting Pharisees, and doctors of the law, who had come from every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord for healing them was exercised.

This person having heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, went to him, that he might come down, and cure his son: for he was at the point of death.

This is again a second miracle which Jesus did, when he came from Judea into Galilee.


AND it came to pass when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan.

But they were urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching through all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.

AND arising, he went from thence into the coasts of Judea, through the country on the other side of the Jordan; and again the multitudes came together unto him; and as his custom was, he again taught them.


THEN in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the desert country of Judea,

and he came into all the country on the confines of Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;







There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abiah: and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth.


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