Place · City
Gennesaret
Named in 3 verses across 3 books, first in Mark 6:53.
In the Bible
All 1 verse in Mark, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Mark
- Mark 6:53
When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and moored the boat.
Events here
Events the dataset sets at Gennesaret. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. AD 29Healing in Gennesaret
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
A town of Naphtali, called Chinnereth (Josh. 19:35), sometimes in the plural form Chinneroth (11:2). In later times the name was gradually changed to Genezar and Gennesaret (Luke 5:1). This city stood on the western shore of the lake to which it gave its name. No trace of it remains. The plain of Gennesaret has been called, from its fertility and beauty, “the Paradise of Galilee.” It is now called el-Ghuweir.