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Place · City

Caesarea

Named in 16 verses, first in Acts 8:40.

Where

Coordinates

32.4988° N, 34.8913° EOpen in OpenStreetMap ↗

Identification

Not assessed

The dataset gives no precision for this point.

Matched to an entry in an ancient-world gazetteer, and the match was checked by the dataset’s editors. Gazetteer entry

Some biblical sites are known for certain; others are identified from old names and descriptions and are still discussed.

People

Born, died or recorded here, or in an event set here, first; then people named in the same verses, which does not mean they were here.

Paulrecorded as here, 7 events5 shared verses
Portius Festusrecorded as here, 4 events3 shared verses
Agripparecorded as here, 2 events1 shared verse
Herod Agrippa Idied here, recorded as here, 1 event1 shared verse
Augustusrecorded as here, 2 events1 shared verse
Bernicerecorded as here, 2 events1 shared verse
Holy Spirit3 events
Simon Peterrecorded as here, 2 events
Phillip the Evangelistrecorded as here, 1 event2 shared verses
Corneliusrecorded as here, 1 event2 shared verses
Mnasonrecorded as here, 1 event1 shared verse
Barnabasrecorded as here, 1 event
Felixrecorded as here, 1 event
Aquilarecorded as here, 1 event
Priscillarecorded as here, 1 event
Simon the Tannerrecorded as here, 1 event
Agabusrecorded as here, 1 event
Ananias (High Priest)recorded as here, 1 event
Tertullusrecorded as here, 1 event
Claudius Lysiasrecorded as here, 1 event

In the Bible

The first 10 of 16 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Acts

Acts 8:40
But Philip appeared at Azotus and traveled through that region, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
Acts 9:30
When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
Acts 10:1
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
Acts 10:24
The following day he arrived in Caesarea, where Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
Acts 11:11
Just then three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.
Acts 12:19
After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.
Acts 18:22
When Paul had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem. Then he went down to Antioch.
Acts 21:8
Leaving the next day, we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven.
Acts 21:16
Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us, and they took us to stay at the home of Mnason the Cypriot, an early disciple.
Acts 23:23
Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.

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Events here

Events the dataset sets at Caesarea. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. AD 38
Saul proclaims JesusActs 9:20–31
c. AD 38
Peter meets CorneliusActs 10:1–33
c. AD 38
Peter preaches to gentiles in CaesareaActs 10:34–48
c. AD 45
Herod diesActs 12:20–23
no date
Return from Second Missionary JourneyActs 18:18–23
no date
Voyage from Miletus to JerusalemActs 21:1–17
c. AD 56
Paul sent to FelixActs 23:23–24:27
c. AD 56
Paul appeals to CaesarActs 25:1–12
c. AD 56
Agrippa and Bernice meet FestusActs 25:13–21
c. AD 56
Paul goes before AgrippaActs 25:22–26:32

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

(Palestinae), a city on the shore of the Mediterranean, on the great road from Tyre to Egypt, about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem, at the northern extremity of the plain of Sharon. It was built by Herod the Great (B.C. 10), who named it after Caesar Augustus, hence called Caesarea Sebaste (Gr. Sebastos = “Augustus”), on the site of an old town called “Strato’s Tower.” It was the capital of the Roman province of Judaea, the seat of the governors or procurators, and the headquarters of the Roman troops. It was the great Gentile city of Palestine, with a spacious artificial harbour. It was adorned with many buildings of great splendour, after the manner of the Roman cities of the West. Here Cornelius the centurion was converted through the instrumentality of Peter (Acts 10:1, 24), and thus for the first time the door of faith was opened to the Gentiles. Philip the evangelist resided here with his four daughters (21:8). From this place Saul sailed for his native Tarsus when forced to flee from Jerusalem (9:30), and here he landed when returning from his second missionary journey (18:22). He remained as a prisoner here for two years before his voyage to Rome (Acts 24:27; 25:1, 4, 6, 13). Here on a “set day,” when games were celebrated in the theatre in honour of the emperor Claudius, Herod Agrippa I. appeared among the people in great pomp, and in the midst of the idolatrous homage paid to him was suddenly smitten by an angel, and carried out a dying man. He was “eaten of worms” (12:19-23), thus perishing by the same loathsome disease as his granfather, Herod the Great. It still retains its ancient name Kaiseriyeh, but is now desolate. “The present inhabitants of the ruins are snakes, scorpions, lizards, wild boars, and jackals.” It is described as the most desolate city of all Palestine.