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Bookmark or Share- Who were the Galileans in the Bible? | GotQuestions.orgA Galilean in the Bible is an inhabitant of the area in Israel near the Sea of Galilee. In the time of Christ, Galilee was the northernmost of the three provinces of Israel, above Samaria in the middle and Judea in the south.
- Galilean - WikipediaGenerically, a Galilean (/ ɡælɪˈliːən /; Hebrew: גלילי; Ancient Greek: Γαλιλαίων; Latin: Galilaeos) is a term that was used in classical sources to describe the inhabitants of Galilee, an area of northern Israel / Southern Lebanon that extends from the northern coastal plain in the west to the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan ...
- Galilee - It's History and Importance in the Bible & Life of JesusGalilee, where Jesus first called his disciples, is the location of many events recorded in the first three Gospels. “The apostles were all Galileans by either birth or residence,” records Smith’s Bible Dictionary.
- Topical Bible: GalileeCharacter of the Galileans: In the mixed population after the exile the purely Jewish element must have been relatively small. In 165 B.C. Simon Maccabeus was able to rescue them from their threatening neighbors by carrying the whole community away to Judea (1 Maccabees 5:14).
- Galilean (s) - Encyclopedia of The Bible - Bible GatewayAfter the Rom. overthrow of the Jewish state in a.d. 70, many Jews and Jewish Christians fled from Jerusalem to Galilee, thus making the Galileans a center of the Jewish culture.
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