Bethsaida
A place in the Bible
A town by the Sea of Galilee. Philip, Andrew, and Peter came from there.
What happened here
- A quiet place: when the apostles came back from their mission, Jesus took them away by themselves to a deserted place near Bethsaida.
Today
No one knows for sure exactly where it was. There are two possible places, north of the lake.
Where it appears in the Bible
John 1:44; Luke 9:10
What the Bible says
John 1:44
Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
Luke 9:10
And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all they had done. And taking them, he went aside into a desert place, apart, which belongeth to Bethsaida.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: John 1:44; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Bethsaida”