Palestine
SYRIA
Sidon
at the time of Jesus
ITUREA
Damascus
PHOENICIA
MT. HERMON
Tyre
Caesarea Philippi
GAULANITIS
LAKE HULEH
GALILEE
MEDITERRANEAN
SEA
SEA OF GALILEE
Capernaum
Gennesaret
Dalmanutha/Magdala
Canatha
Bethsaida
Gergesa
Dion
BATANEA
Hippus
Nazareth
MT. TABOR
Raphana
Gadara
Caesarea
DECAPOLIS
Scythopolis
Pella
JORDAN R.
SAMARIA
Gerasa
ELEVATIONS (in ft.)
Mt. Hermon
9,232
Lake Huleh
223
Sea of Galilee
-695
Nazareth
1,245
Mt. Tabor
1,929
Jerusalem
2,693
Dead Sea
-1,285
Joppa
JUDEA
Arimathea
Jerusalem
PEREA
Philadelphia
AREA (approx.)
Sea of Galilee 13 x 7 mi.
Dead Sea
43 x 9 mi.
Bethphage
Jericho
Bethany
Bethlehem
LATITUDES
Galilee and San Diego are
approximately the same.
city of the Decapolis
DEAD
SEA
Gaza
SEA OF GALILEE
IDUMEA
DEAD SEA
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Globe graphic and topographic map
courtesy of Bible Atlas Online
Copyright © 2002 Access Foundation
www.anova.org/sev/atlas/htm
Jerusalem
THE TEMPLE
to Caesarea
and Samaria
at the time of Jesus
rebuilt by Herod the Great
beginning in 19 B.C.
Antonia fortress
(Roman garrison)
Holy Place
(curtain)
Court of Priests
Court of Israel
Court of Women
Feet
0
100
200
300
Court of Gentiles
(moneychangers)
Golgotha
(alt.)
tomb?
to Jericho
Antonia
fortress
to Emmaus
and Joppa
Gethsemane
tomb?
Golgotha
(trad.)
Hasmonean
Palace
Herod’s
Palace
(Praetorium)
UPPER
CITY
to Bethany
High
Priest’s
house
Passover
meal
(trad.)
to Bethlehem
and Hebron
LOWER
CITY
OLD
CITY
to Dead Sea
Temple graphic courtesy of
The Zondervan Atlas of the Bible
Zondervan Pulishing House
Copyright © 1989 by Carta, Jerusalem