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Where Jesus walked

In the order Scripture gives them · Matthew 4:12–17 · John 2:13 · Luke 9:51

12 stops
1BethlehemBethlehem · stop 12NazarethNazareth · stop 23JordanJordan · stop 34CapernaumCapernaum · stop 45BethsaidaBethsaida · stop 56Caesarea PhilippiCaesarea Philippi · stop 67SycharSychar · stop 78JerichoJericho · stop 89·10·11Bethany · Jerusalem · GolgothaBethany · Jerusalem · Golgotha · stop 9·10·1112EmmausEmmaus · stop 12about 315 km across · drawn without map tilesWhere Jesus walked
Coastlines, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth · 1:10m physical vectors — ne_10m_coastline, ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines, ne_10m_lakes · v5.2.0-pre · Public domain · places: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0 · the route is drawn stop to stop, not road by road

About this route

The places named in the four Gospels, in the order the story reaches them: Nazareth and Bethlehem, the Jordan and the lake towns of Galilee, the journeys through Samaria and up to Jerusalem for the feasts, and the last week from Bethany to Golgotha and Emmaus.

Written in-house from the passages named on each stop

The stops

1
BethlehemLuke 2:4–7

Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house…

2
NazarethLuke 2:39 · Luke 4:16–30

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

3
JordanMatthew 3:13–17

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

4
CapernaumMatthew 4:13 · Mark 2:1–12

Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

5
BethsaidaMark 6:45 · Luke 9:10–17

Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away.

6
Caesarea PhilippiMatthew 16:13–20

Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

7
SycharJohn 4:5–42

So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

8
JerichoLuke 19:1–10

He entered and was passing through Jericho.

9
BethanyJohn 11:1–44 · Matthew 21:17

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

10
JerusalemJohn 2:13–22 · Matthew 21:1–11

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

11
GolgothaJohn 19:16–18

So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

12
EmmausLuke 24:13–35

Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

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