A herd of swine running headlong down the mountain would here inevitably perish in the lake (Matthew 8:32, etc.). Fragments of an elaborate border, however, remain intact. 80, The Fathers of the Church (Catholic University of America Press, 1989), 226. That monastery was destroyed by Sassanid Persian armies in 614 CE, partially rebuilt, and finally levelled by the 749 Galilee earthquake. , Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 716. On the basis of the textual evidence alone, we cannot determine which of these variants is . Many are the ruins of great and splendid cities on slope and height of which almost nothing is known today. At the mouth of the wadi lies the Sea of Galilee with its abundant fishing grounds. Today they are the modern towns of Jerash and Umm Qais. This courtyard provided an impressive space to meet, talk and restperhaps on the low benches whose remains we found on the western side. Tiberias: 32.795858: 35.530975: Capernaum: 32.88033: 35.573307: Distance: 10.19 km: It maybe taken as certain that the jurisdiction of Gadara, as the chief city in these regions, extended over the country East of the Sea, including the lands of the subordinate town, GERASA (which see). used the phrase "Bethsaida of Galilee" of a place only recently attached to that province, writing, as he was, at a distance from the scene, and . The heights of Naphtali, piled up in the North, seem to culminate only in the snowy summit of Great Hermon. We have now conducted five seasons of excavations at the site, during 19701973 and in 1980. Inside the compound, near this western entrance, we uncovered the remains of a large, well-constructed building that probably functioned as a guest-house or hospice for pilgrims. It became the seat of a bishopric, and one of its bishops attended the Council of Chalcedon. By protecting the boulder with a massive tower and building a chapel behind and above it, the early Christian fathers both commemorated and sanctified a site that Christian pilgrims could relate to the life of Jesus. On the rocky promontory, however, East of Khan Minyeh we find Sheikh `Aly ec-Caiyadin, "Sheikh Aly of the Fishermen," as the name of a ruined weley, in which the second element in the name Bethsaida is represented. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. It is as if this chamber (which once had a tower) was built to protect or preserve the boulder. These demon-possessed pigs then run headlong into the lake and, presumably, drown. Luke 9:10 The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. The modern town stands at the northern corner of the plain; while at the southern end are the famous hot baths, the ancient Hammath. . Gergesenes means "those who come from pilgrimage or fight."[1]. The city of Gadara is represented today by the ruins of Umm Qeis on the heights south of el-Chummeh-the hot springs in the Yarmuk valley-about 6 miles Southeast of the Sea of Galilee. Gerasa, Gadara, Gergesa from where did the pigs stampede? This has therefore always been a favorite haunt of fishermen. Identification and Description:Umm Cheis answers the description given of Gadara by ancient writers. Mk 1:35-45 During the winter of 27/28AD, Jesus goes to the nearby villages of Galilee, preaching and casting out demons. Zebedee was able to hire men to assist him (Mark 1:20). If the waters are still, the shining splendors of the mountain may be seen mirrored in the blue depths. Then Josephus explicitly says that Bethsaida was in Lower Gaulonitis (BJ, II, ix, 1). Sohow did this problem arise? It is probably represented by the modern Jedur, not far from es-Salt (Buhl, Buhl, Geographic des alten Palastina, 255; Guthe). Josephus names it as marking the eastern limit of Peraea (BJ, III, iii, 3). The ruts worn in the pavement by the chariot wheels are still to be seen.That there was a second Gadara seems certain, and it may be intended in some of the passages referred to above. Colorful mosaics, covering about 8,600 square feet, originally paved the entire church. 2019 Dr. Andrew Jackson. It was besieged by Baldwin II, in 1121 A.D. All Im able to say with any confidence is that Matthew felt compelled to change the location of the pigs. These differences caused copyists of the gospels to perform no end of monkey-business with the sentence there are 3 variants for each of the synoptic gospels.2 Were looking at a genuine problem that was recognised very early. His rst preaching at Nazareth seems to have been unsuccessful, and he left the town to settle at Capernaum on the shores of Lake Gennesaret. From the northern parts of the lake the Horns of ChaTTin, the traditional Mount of Beatitudes, may be seen through the rocky jaws of the gorge. ton Gergesenon, "of the Gergesenes," must be rejected (Westcott-Hort, II. A city in Transjordania, situated about thirty-five m. SE of the S end of the Sea of Galilee, one of the cities of the Decapolis; the inhabitants of the city. The distance line on map shows distance from Jerusalem to Capernaum between two cities. Robert L. Webb and Mark Allan Powell, vol. Calms a storm from . See GENNESARET, LAND OF. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Almost from the beginning of Christianity, the area around the Sea of Galilee has been a major focus of Christian pilgrimage, a focus second only to Jerusalem. Superior buildings are rising outside the ancient walls. Further, if the Gospel of Mark embodies the recollections of Peter, it would be difficult to find a more reliable authority for topographical details connected with the sea on which his fisher life was spent. Farther North, Wady el-`Amud brings down much water in the rainy season. Fish:The sea contains many varieties of fish in great numbers. Now a village is pointed out beside Lake Tiberias, into which the swine rushed down headlong.11. Eusebius of Caesarea (260313 CE10) in his Onomasticon (basically a long list of place names with explanations of their location), not content with his available options of Gerasa and Gadara Eusebius decided to add a third candidate: Eusebius, Onomasticon, 74: Gergesa There the Lord healed the demoniacs. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Jesus commands the unclean spirits to come out of him. He says that it supplies grapes and figs through ten months of the year, and other fruits as they ripen together throughout the year (same place). Or something. 51.91.102.219 The healing of Legion is narrated in all three synoptic gospels; they all begin by describing where the event took place: Matthew 8:28 When he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs coming out of the tombs met him.1, Mark 5:1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes., Luke 8:26 Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.. Here a shallow vale breaks northward, bounded on the West by Tell `Areimeh. About halfway up the hill is the towerlike structure mentioned earlier. John 1:44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. On the Sea of Galilee there are frequent storms. Unfortunately, the most severe damage to the mosaics occurred in the nave. We may assume that the cities named in the Gospels were mainly Jewish. Powered by, View over Kursi toward the Sea of Galilee, The Black Obelisks journey from Nimrud to London, A critical assessment of the scientific explanation for the Ten Plagues in The Exodus Decoded Plague 7: Hail. (Matthew 8:28; Mark 5:1; Luke 8:26) In Gerasenes in place of Gadarenes. LUKE. "One may call this place the ambition of nature;. 33A, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 1998), 226. When we excavated this structure in 1980, we discovered that this was the very site of the miracle, as fixed by Christians in the mid-third century. A friend recently asked about the geographical problem of Mark 5 so I thought Id write up some thoughts on the topic. Distance between Tel Aviv and Capernaum (117,32 km.) Interpreting the reference to the hillside as anywhere but the steep banks that encircle the lake is geographically problematic: the record describes a pretty short run for the pigs their stampede was quickly over. It is the only place fitting Matthew's description, since it contains the only "steep bank" in the area descending all the way to the shore of the lake. OK. First up: they dont agree. The total distance between Galilee and Capernaum is 5131 KM (kilometers) and 307.05 meters. (d) In support of the single-city theory it is further argued that(i) Jesus withdrew to Bethsaida as being in the jurisdiction of Philip, when he heard of the murder of John by Antipas, and would not have sought again the territories of the latter so soon after leaving them. It was conquered by the Moslems in the time of Omar (Guy le Strange, Palestine under the Moslems, 462). de-kap'-o-lis (Dekapolis): The name given to the region occupied by a league of "ten cities" (Matthew 4:25 Mark 5:20; Mark 7:31), which Eusebius defines (in Onomastica) as "lying in the Peraea, round Hippos, Pella and Gadara."Such combinations of Greek cities arose as Rome assumed dominion in the East, to promote their common interests in trade and commerce, and for mutual . [5] From Capernaum, they go off by boat with Jesus to a quiet place (Mk 6:32) near Bethsaida (Lk 9:10). proof that its territory reached the sea. (ii) No case can be cited where the phrase eis to peran certainly means anything else than "to the other side." These motifs were taken from artists notebooks that were used throughout the Mediterranean world, not only during the Byzantine period, but also before and after. The "desert" of the narrative is just the barriyeh of the Arabs where the animals are driven out for pasture. About 2 miles farther West are the hot springs of eT-Tabgha. Country of the Gadarenes: This city is not named in Scripture, but the territory belonging to it is spoken of as chora ton Gadarenon, "country of the Gadarenes" (Matthew 8:28).In the parallel passages (Mark 5:1 Luke 8:26, 37) we read: chora ton Gerasenon "country of the Gerasenes."There is no good reason, however, to question the accuracy of the text in either case. (ii) The Bethsaida of medieval writers was evidently on the West of the Jordan. The fig and the vine are still cultivated with success. 6.211. Four of the apostles, and these the chief, had been brought up as fishermen on the Sea of Galilee. 27, Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008), 342. Recently the German Catholics made extensive purchases, including the village of el-Mejdel. TIME. Ewing. Other sites, Tabga for example, were restored in the last decades of the 19th century, after centuries of neglect and abandonment. , William Arndt et al., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 612. Christian artifacts from Kursi can be viewed at the Golan Archaeological Museum. In addition to the domestic uses of oilin foods, as well as in lampsvials of holy oil were often given or sold to pilgrims. At the center is a large prayer hall in the form of a basilica. General Description:The sea lies in the deep trough of the Jordan valley, almost due East of the Bay of Acre. As this is too far from the sea for a fishing village, Schumacher (The Jaulan, 246) suggests that el-`Araj, "a large, completely destroyed site close to the lake," connected in ancient times with et-Tell "by the beautiful roads still visible," may have been the fishing village, and et-Tell the princely residence. 31 or 32. When he sees Jesus, the demoniac begs Jesus not to torment him. Well probably never find out what the real deal is, but, as usual with these things, thats only a problem if we subscribe to the patently false doctrine of inerrancy.17. If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles per hour) between Nazareth to Capernaum, It takes 0.04 hours to arrive. Some of these sites, such as Capernaum, have a continuous and uninterrupted place in the history of Christian pilgrimage, beginning as far back as the first centuries of our era. Such storms are fairly frequent, and as they are attended with danger to small craft, the boatmen are constantly on the alert. It is located at the longitude of -71.522615 and latitude of 41.364855. The greatest breadth is in the North, from el-Mejdel to the mouth of Wady Semak being rather over 7 miles. Decaplis, In most cases they have gone, leaving not even their names with any certainty behind; but His memory abides forever. The water of the lake is clear and sweet. See CAPERNAUM. Well, it seems Eusebius didnt arrive at his Gergesa idea alone; it appears he may have just been following Origens (185-253 CE) commentary on John where we read: Origen, John. Still other pilgrimage sites, such as Magdala, have been only recently rediscovered by archaeological excavations after having been entirely forgotten for more than a thousand years. On the shore, fully 2 miles from the Jordan, are the ruins of Tell Chum. unique traits of plants, animals and humans. It throws out a rocky promontory into the sea, and beyond this are the ruins of Khan Minyeh, with `Ain et-Tineh close under the cliff. Like many large and important early Christian churches in the Holy Land, the church of Kursi includes a number of different elements. In the middle of the eighth century, probably as a result of the disastrous earthquake of 746/747, the monastery was destroyed. But as we have seen above, the "want of precision" must also be attributed to the writer of John 6:17. Pompey is said to have restored it, 63 B.C. Both Gerasa and Gadara were cities to the east of the Sea of Galilee and the River Jordan. , Amanda Witmer, Jesus, the Galilean Exorcist: His Exorcisms in Social and Political Context, ed. Harry M. Jol, Gloria I. Lpez, Haim Cohen, Michal Artzy, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Mark 5:1-20, Luke 8:26-39, Matthew 8:28-34, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gergesa&oldid=1129180387, Articles needing additional references from January 2009, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 December 2022, at 00:24. Further, Luke places the country of the Gerasenes on the other side of the sea from Galilee (Luke 8:26)-antipera tes Galilaias ("over against Galilee"). , Ludwig Koehler et al., The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden: E.J. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. According to local tradition, the ruins of this structure bore the name of Gersa or Gursa. The walls of the structure are more than 3 feet thick. Even if Judas were born in Gamala, and so might properly be called a Gaulonite, he may, like others, have come to be known as belonging to the province in which his active life was spent. Mark 8:22 He came to Bethsaida. App., 11).)2. This seems to be the fountain called "Capharnaum" by Josephus (BJ, III, x, 8). In a few moments the air was thick with mist, through which one could hear the roar of the tortured waters. Synoptic-Gospels. After all its not far off 300 years after the events. This describes the district in which Christ met and healed the demoniac from the tombs, where also took place the destruction of the swine. There he meets a man seized with an unclean spirit (Mark) or with demons (Luke). Where vegetable gardens are planted they yield plentifully. It was taken by Antiochus the Great when in 218 B.C. Some would identify the place with RAMOTH-GILEAD, which see.The site is now occupied by a colony of Circassians, and there is reason to fear that, unless something is done to preserve them, many valuable remains of antiquity will perish.W. After Herod's death it was joined to the province of Syria, 4 B.C. Matthew 15:29 Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there. (NOTE.-The Textus Receptus of the New Testament reading. Mention is made of the strength of the site and the mighty masonry of its walls. He could have followed Mark, but he chose to do something else.9 It seems reasonable to this layman to suggest that maybe Matthew relocated the herd because he knew enough of the geography to say that if this event took place in the country of the Gadarenes the herd couldnt be both on a hillside and close to the shore Gadara was around 5 or 6 miles away from the shore, and the hills that lead from Gadara to the lake are very close to Gadara and a number of miles from the lake. , Origen, John. Ewing. See FISHING. This writer extols the productiveness of the plain. The structure itself consists of two parts. The air cleared, and the wide welter of foam-crested waves attested the fury of the blast. All scripture quoted from The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989), If you want to get into the detail see Bruce Manning Metzger, United Bible Societies, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Second Edition a Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament (4th Rev. From the late fifth to the early seventh centuries, all four sides of the compound had entrances. Fertility:The walnut, the palm, the olive and the fig, which usually require diverse conditions, flourish together here. Your IP: One things for sure: Gergasa, if it can be equated with Kursi, is the most geographically plausible16 reading. The multitude following on foot along the northern shore of the lake would cross the Jordan by the ford at its mouth which is used by foot travelers to this day. , Glenn F. Chesnut, Eusebius of Caesarea (Person), ed. The substitution of sin for cad is easy: but the insertion of the guttural `ain is impossible. So, Matthew is aware that on the face of it Marks account doesnt work. Jesus is in Capernaum, he gets on a boat, sails across the Sea of Galilee, ends up in a storm, and calms the water. Cultivation was confined to the Southwest part; and the rest furnished grazing ground for a tribe of nomads. Lucius Annius, at the instance of Vespasian, sacked and burned the city, with much slaughter (BJ, IV, ix, 1). It was on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, and must have been a locality where the steep edges of the Bashan plateau drop close upon the brink of the lake. This is doubtless to be identified with the village of Bethsaida in Lower Gaulonitis which the Tetrarch Philip raised to the rank of a city, and called Julias, in honor of Julia, the daughter of Augustus. Josephus gives Pella as the northern boundary of Peraea (BJ, III, iii, 3). Luke 10:13 "Woe to you, Chorazin! MARK. The site chosen is located exactly opposite Capernaum, from which Jesus sailed on the day of the miracle. Slowly, perhaps, but surely, the old order is giving place to the new. Like, not even the alphabet. Distance between Ramat Gan and Capernaum (114,37 km.) (In Matthew, the story tells of two demoniacs.) The at some distance is a bit fluffy in the english it could mean anywhere from not far to miles away. After stilling the storm while crossing the Sea of Galilee, Jesus lands with his disciples on the eastern shore of the lake. Round the greater part of the lake there is a broad pebbly beach, with a sprinkling of small shells. John 12:21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus. (iii) The East coast of the sea was definitely attached to Galilee in A.D. 84, and Ptolemy (circa 140) places Julius in Galilee. [8] [9] The distance between Bethsaida and Paneas is said to have been 50 mi (80 km). GADARA. If freedom and security be enjoyed in reasonable measure, the region will again display its long-hidden treasures of fertility and beauty.W. fine for parking in handicap spot in ohio. William of Tyre calls the city Jarras, and places it 16 miles East of Jordan (Hist, xii, 16). The chapel has an apse constructed within a natural rock shelter. The location of the incident of the "Gadarene . The rooms on each side of the prayer hall were used for auxiliary purposes. A narrow ribbon of plain between the mountain and the shore runs to the South end of the lake. Matthew, using Mark as a source for his own gospel, appears to have been aware of this geographic difficulty. Jesus'-Ministry, Ewing. If Capernaum were at Khan Minyeh, then the two lay close together. To the North of this the waters of the sea almost touch the foot of the steep slope. It was the seat of one of the councils instituted by Gabinius for the government of the Jews (Ant., XIV, v, 4; BJ, I, viii, 5). Within the apse is a bench subdivided into semicircular, plastered seats. John 6:1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. Distances. Coming westward from the point where the Jordan enters the lake, the mountains approach within a short distance of the sea. In 1 Maccabees 11:67 the sea is called "the water of Gennesar" (the Revised Version (British and American) "Gennesareth"). He calls the inhabitants Syrians, when, at the beginning of the Jewish revolt, the district round Gerasa was laid waste. Ed.) It lay near the place where the Jordan enters the Sea of Gennesaret (Ant., XVIII, ii, 1; BJ, II, ix, 1; III, x, 7; Vita, 72). For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. At eT-Tabgha in the North, at `Ain el Fuliyeh, South of el-Mejdel, and on the shore, about 2 miles South of modern Tiberias, there are strong hot springs. It is mentioned in some ancient manuscripts of the Gospel of Matthew as the place where the Miracle of the Swine took place, a miracle performed by Jesus who drove demons out of two possessed men and into a herd of pigs. From this disaster it appears soon to have recovered, and the period of its greatest prosperity lay, probably, in the 2nd and 3nd centuries of our era. And that doesnt fit the description were given of the stampede at all. Here the mountains recede from the shore, leaving a crescent-shaped plain, largely covered with the ruins of the ancient city. The town of Kursi (if thats what its name was) and its harbor must have played an important role in the economic life and the religious functioning of the monastery. Storms:The position of the lake makes it liable to sudden storms, the cool air from the uplands rushing down the gorges with great violence and tossing the waters in tumultuous billows. The figure of a ship frequently appears on its coins: conclusive. Both Gerasa and Gadara were cities to the east of the Sea of Galilee and the River Jordan. In the small bay nearby, we can still see the remains of a well-constructed harbor used both for sea travel and by the fishing industry during the Roman period (first to fifth centuries A.D.). Occasionally, however, tempests break over the lake, in which a boat could hardly live. Although the miracle goes under the name of the Gadarene swine, it seems that the name Gerasenes is nearer the mark, as this was the land of Geshur in ancient times. It lights up the landscape as the eye does the human face; and it is often spoken of as "the eye of Galilee." The Sea of Galilee is Israel's largest freshwater lake. 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