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<p> '''Bethsaida''' (''bĕth'sâ'i-dah'' ), ''home, of fishing.'' [[A]] city of Galilee, near Capernaum. &nbsp;John 12:21; &nbsp;Matthew 11:21. Some writers urge that there were two Bethsaidas, since the desert place where the 5000 were fed belonged to "the city called Bethsaida," &nbsp;Luke 9:10, while after the miracle the disciples were to go before him unto the other side to Bethsaida, &nbsp;Mark 6:45, which it is said could not refer to the same town. If there were two towns of this name, the first one was in Galilee on the west side of the lake, and 2. Bethsaida Julias, in Gaulanitis, on the eastern bank of the Jordan, near its entrance into the lake. Others think it unlikely that two cities in such close neighborhood should have borne the same name. Hence Dr. [[W.]] [[M.]] Thomson supposes that there was but one Bethsaida, which was built on both sides of the Jordan, and places the site at Abu-Zany, where the Jordan empties into the Lake of Galilee. The Sinaitic manuscript omits "belonging to a city called Bethsaida" in &nbsp;Luke 9:1-62; &nbsp;Luke 10:1-42; hence, Wilson agrees that there is no necessity for two Bethsaidas. The eastern city was beautified by Philip the tetrarch, and called Bethsaida Julias (in honor of a daughter of the emperor Augustus), perhaps to distinguish it from the western Bethsaida, in Galilee. </p>

<p> '''Bethsa'ida.''' ''(house of fish).'' '''Bethsaida''' , ''of Galilee.'' &nbsp;John 12:21. [[A]] city which was the native place of Andrew, Peter and Philip, &nbsp;John 1:44; &nbsp;John 12:21, in the land of Gennesareth, &nbsp;Mark 6:46, compare &nbsp;Mark 6:53, and therefore, on the west side of the lake. By comparing the narratives in &nbsp;Mark 6:31-53 and &nbsp;Luke 9:10-17, it appears certain that the Bethsaida, at which the five thousand were fed, must have been a second place of the same name, on the east of the lake. </p> <p> (But, in reality, "there is, but one Bethsaida, that known on our maps as Bethsaida Julias." [[L.]] [[Abbot]] in Biblical and Oriental Journal. The fact is that Bethsaida was a village, on both sides of the Jordan, as it enters the sea of Galilee on the north, so that the western part of the village was in Galilee and the eastern portion in Gaulonitis, part of the tetrarchy of Philip. </p> <p> This eastern portion was built up into a beautiful city by Herod Philip, and named by him Bethsaida Julias, after Julia, the daughter of the Roman emperor, [[Tiberius]] Caesar. On the plain of Butaiha, a mile or two to the east, the five thousand were fed. The western part of the town remained a small village. - Editor). </p>