Caesarea Philippi

 

 Caesarea Philippi, known today as Banias, is a site located in northern Upper Galilee.

 

  Caesarea Philippi was an impressive Greco-Roman city located near a flowing spring - one of the sources of the Jordan River in the foothills of Mount Hermon.

 

 A Roman sanctuary, which included temples and ritual courtyards,  was built near the sacred grotto of Pan, seen here in the center of the photo.

 

For more info on this site, now called Banias, click here.

 

 

Mk 8:27-38: "And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples..."

  

Mt 16:13-28: "When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying,... ".

 

 

 

 

 

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  Jesus travels to Caesarea Philippi (upper Galilee)

                                                                                                 

                                                            

             

                                                                                               

 

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