• A city near which Christ fed 5,000 (Luke 9:10; Compare John 6:17; Matthew 14:15-21 ), and where the blind man had his sight restored (Mark 8:22 ), on the east side of the lake, two miles up the Jordan. It stood within the region of Gaulonitis, and was enlarged by Philip the tetrarch, who called it "Julias," after the emperor's daughter. Or, as some have supposed, there may have been but one Bethsaida built on both sides of the lake, near where the Jordan enters it. Now the ruins et-Tel.

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    Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Bethsaida'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/b/bethsaida.html. 1897.