* straightway.
Mt 14:22-33 Joh 6:15-17,18-21
* unto Bethsaida. or, over against Bethsaida.
Bethsaida, according to Josephus, was situated on the sea of
Gennesaret, in the lower Gaulonitis, (consequently on the east
of the lake, as Pliny states,) and at the beginning of the
mountainous country; and it was raised from a village to the
honour of a city by Philip, and called Julias in honour of the
emperor's daughter. Some learned men, however, are of opinion
that the Bethsaida mentioned in the gospels was a different
place; and that it was situated on the western shore of the
sea of Tiberias, in Galilee, near Chorazin and Capernaum, with
which it is associated, (Mt 11:21, 23. Joh 12:21;) and Bishop
Pococke mentions the ruins of a town or large village in the
plain of Huttin, about two miles west of the lake, still
bearing the name of Baitsida, which he thinks occupies its
site.
8:22 Lu 10:13
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