The Village of Jesus' Apostles May Have Discovered

[John Elias]

The Hometown of Peter, Andrew and Phillip May Have Just Been Discovered.

Archaeologist in Galilee claim they may have found the lost village of Bethsaida, the hometown of Peter, Andrew and Phillip.

John 1:44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

The name Bethsaida means, appropriately enough, ‘House of the fishermen.’ Over the ages it’s location was lost to history. Part of the mystery was that King Philip Herod had built over Bethsaida and renamed it Julias. Jewish historian Josephus Flavius said that Philip Herod remade the village into a proper Roman polis.

Israel’s Haaretz first reported it: Bethsaida Discovery

Then National Geographic covered it: The House of Jesus' Apostles

Background on Bethsaida: The Mystery of Bethsaida

 

[for_his_glory]

I would love to be a part of a team that discovers all these places buried under other cities.

 

[JohnDB]

Ummm
You can see them all from one point on the coast. I did.

The "Sea" of Galilee is a small lake. I was in Tiberius and could see Chorazin and Capernaum easily from the balcony of my hotel room. Bethsaida is just to the right and farther up the hill (Golan Heights). The hills aren't green this time of year and are brown/golden as there really won't be any rain yet for a few months yet.

Capernaum is where the Apostles settled after Phillip took it...and where there is a house (turned into a church) known as Peter's house.

 

[banded butterfly]

Very exciting. I too would love to be on a dig like the one described.