Bethsaida
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Bethsaida, also known as Julias or Julia, is a place mentioned in the New Testament. Julias lay in an administrative district known as Gaulonitis, now the Golan Heights.
Inside the Iron-Age city gate, et-Tell
Shrine with standing stones at Iron-Age city gate, et-Tell
A stele from Bethsaida (et-Tell) depicting a Canaanite deity, possibly Kašku. On display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Trident fishing gallaeus
John the Apostle
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John the Apostle, also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. General
Bethsaida
…that none of them should have mentioned the river in this connection. If the Gospel of John was not written until well into the 2nd century, then John the Apostle was not the same person as the author John the Evangelist. But this is a very precarious assumption. John, writing after AD 84, would hardly have used…
The Apostle Saint John Evangelist by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1611)
John the Apostle, detail of the mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 6th century
Armenian icon of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, 13th century by the Armenian manuscript illuminator Toros Roslin
John the Evangelist and Peter by Albrecht Dürer (1526)