![]() We see a rocky face that rises 100 feet and runs 500 feet wide, with a foreboding cave in the middle where temple ruins lie strewn about. Where the Banias stream leads to the cliff area, we find a very unique place. During the Greco-Roman times, Caesarea Philippi was a city located near the ancient city of Dan, in the northern part of Israel, by Mount Hermon and the Jordan River. A lone Arab fruit vendor capitalized on a rare opportunity to fleece tourists, charging one American dollar for a banana.īack to Caesarea Philippi, it was originally called Paneas, but later changed to Caesarea Paneas, from the Hellenistic period after its association with the god Pan, a name that mutated to Banias. Our half-day trip to the region of the Golan Heights was for the most part a waste of time, unless anybody was actually interested in learning about wars in the region, or in enjoying the view of a forlorn wasteland dotted by rusted tanks. This region includes the western two-thirds of the geological Golan Heights, as well as the Israeli-occupied part of Mount Hermon. In passing, we ought to mention that as a geopolitical region, the Golan Heights is the area captured from Syria and occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War, a territory which Israel effectively annexed in 1981. Now nearly uninhabited, Caesarea is an archaeological site in the Golan Heights. (L) Greco-Roman times, Caesarea Philippi (R) James Tissot, Jesus Goes up to Jerusalem.Ĭaesarea Philippi is literally “ Philip’s Caesarea”, Philip being the half-brother of Herod Agrippa. 54 When his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 55 But he turned and rebuked them. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him 53 but they did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. 51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
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