Judea in the Bible

Meaning: the praise of the Lord; confessionpar

Thematic Bible



In those days John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the Wilderness of Judea [along the western side of the Dead Sea] and saying,


Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and the other side of the Jordan.

One day as He was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present with Him to heal.

Having heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to meet Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

This is the second sign (attesting miracle) that Jesus performed [in Cana] after He had come from Judea to Galilee [revealing that He is the Messiah].


Now when Jesus had finished saying these things, He left Galilee and went into the part of Judea that is beyond the Jordan;

But they were insistent and said, “He stirs up the people [to rebel], teaching throughout Judea, starting from Galilee even as far as here [in Jerusalem].”

Getting up, He left there (Capernaum) and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; and crowds gathered around Him again and accompanied Him, and as was His custom, He once more began to teach them.


In those days John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the Wilderness of Judea [along the western side of the Dead Sea] and saying,

And he went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin;


Then the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and continued along north of Beth-arabah, and the border went up to the [landmark of the] stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

In the wilderness [that slopes downward toward the Dead Sea]: Beth-arabah, Middin and Secacah,


and Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Bethel,


In the days of Herod [the Great], king of Judea, there was a certain priest whose name was Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was a descendant of Aaron [the first high priest of Israel], and her name was Elizabeth.


References

Easton

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