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The Places of John

John names 29 places; Jerusalem, Galilee and Judea most often. 29 of them can be put on a map, 20 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of The Holy Land with the places named in John. Every place is listed in the table below.34°E35°E36°E30°N31°N32°N33°NJerusalemCapernaumNazarethBethanyCanaBethsaidaSiloamAenonArimatheaBethanyBethesdaBethlehemEphraimGabbathaGolgothaMount GerizimMount of OlivesSalimSheep GateSolomon’s PorticoSycharTiberiasZionJerusalemGalileeCapernaumNazarethBethanyCanaSamariaBethsaidaAenonArimatheaBethanyBethlehemEphraimMount GerizimSalimSycharN040 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
The Holy Land, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today.

Every place in John

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Jerusalem1:19, 2:13, 2:23, 3:22, 4:20, 4:21, 4:45, 5:1, 5:2, 7:25, 10:22, 11:18 and 6 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Galilee1:43, 2:1, 2:11, 4:3, 4:43, 4:45, 4:46, 4:47, 4:54, 7:1, 7:3, 7:9 and 4 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Judea3:22, 4:3, 4:47, 4:54, 7:1, 7:3, 11:7, 11:8, 11:54OpenBible.infoHigh
Capernaum2:12, 4:46, 4:47, 6:17, 6:24, 6:59OpenBible.infoHigh
Nazareth1:45, 1:46, 18:5, 18:7, 19:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Bethany11:1, 11:17, 11:18, 12:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Cana2:1, 2:11, 4:46, 21:2OpenBible.infoHigh
Samaria4:4, 4:5, 4:7, 4:9OpenBible.infoHigh
Jordan1:28, 3:26, 10:40OpenBible.infoHigh
Bethsaida1:44, 12:21OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 330)
Sea of Galilee6:1, 21:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Siloam9:7, 9:11OpenBible.infoHigh
Aenon3:23OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 225)
Arimathea19:38OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 301)
Bethany1:28OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 182)
Bethesda5:2OpenBible.infoHigh
Bethlehem7:42OpenBible.infoHigh
Ephraim11:54OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 276)
Gabbatha19:13OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 274)
Golgotha19:17OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 397)
Kidron18:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Gerizim4:20OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount of Olives8:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Salim3:23OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 178)
Sheep Gate5:2OpenBible.infoHigh
Solomon’s Portico10:23OpenBible.infoHigh
Sychar4:5OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 355)
Tiberias6:23OpenBible.infoHigh
Zion12:15OpenBible.infoHigh

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.