Daily Mail

Biblical village of Bethsaida where Jesus fed the 5,000, walked on water and helped a blind man to see is finally identified by archaeologists after 32 years of excavations

A Biblical village where Jesus is said to have performed some of his most famous miracles really existed, and today lies in ruins only a mile from the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists believe. In the ...
Live Science

Is this really the biblical city where Jesus walked on water?

Archaeologists debate over the location of the biblical city of Bethsaida. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The biblical city ...
The Times of Israel

Ruins revealed by wildfire boost Galilean site’s claim as New Testament’s Bethsaida

On a sweltering Thursday afternoon last month, Prof. Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret College drove to el-Araj, an archaeological site on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, hauling buckets, tarps ...
The Times of Israel

Sites vie to be seen as Christianity’s ‘lost’ city of Bethsaida

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. In the New Testament, ...
Daily Mail

Birthplace of St. Peter FOUND: A 1,500-year-old Mosaic found with a prayer to ‘the chief and commander of the heavenly apostles’ suggests a town in northern Israel is the ...

Hidden inscriptions on a mosaic found in what is called the ‘Church of the Apostles’ are believed to provide solid evidence that what is now el-Araj in northern Israel is the lost biblical city of ...