Bethsaida
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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BETHSAIDA beth-sa id Heb.,=house of the fisher, in the Gospels, birthplace of Jesus disciples Peter, Andrew, and Philip. Herod Philip (4 b.c. a.d. 33) is said to have renamed it Julias after the daughter of Augustus...