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The Places of Luke

Luke names 34 places; Jerusalem, Galilee and Judea most often. 34 of them can be put on a map, 27 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 Luke. Every place is listed in the table below.34°E35°E36°E30°N31°N32°N33°NJerusalemNazarethCapernaumMount of OlivesSidonBethlehemEmmausHoly PlaceJerichoTyreBethanyGerasaSodomArimatheaBethphageBethsaidaBethsaidaChorazinGolgothaNainSiloamZarephathJerusalemGalileeNazarethCapernaumMount of OlivesSidonBethlehemEmmausJerichoTyreGerasaSodomArimatheaBethsaidaIturaeaNainSamariaSyriaTrachonitisZarephathN040 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
The Holy Land, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 4 places lie beyond the plate and are in the table.

Every place in Luke

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
Jerusalem2:22, 2:25, 2:38, 2:41, 2:42, 2:43, 2:45, 4:9, 5:17, 6:17, 9:31, 9:51 and 26 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Galilee1:26, 2:4, 2:39, 3:1, 3:19, 4:14, 4:31, 5:17, 8:26, 9:7, 13:1, 13:2 and 7 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Judea1:5, 1:39, 1:65, 2:4, 3:1, 4:44, 5:17, 6:17, 7:17, 21:21, 23:5, 23:51OpenBible.infoHigh
Nazareth1:26, 2:4, 2:39, 2:43, 2:51, 4:16, 4:34, 18:37, 24:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Capernaum4:23, 4:31, 7:1, 10:15OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount of Olives19:29, 19:37, 21:37, 22:39OpenBible.infoHigh
Sidon4:26, 6:17, 10:13, 10:14OpenBible.infoHigh
Bethlehem2:4, 2:11, 2:15OpenBible.infoHigh
Emmaus24:13, 24:28, 24:35OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 204)
Holy Place1:9, 1:21, 1:22OpenBible.infoHigh
Jericho10:30, 18:35, 19:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Tyre6:17, 10:13, 10:14OpenBible.infoHigh
Bethany19:29, 24:50OpenBible.infoHigh
Gerasa8:26, 8:37OpenBible.infoHigh
Jordan3:3, 4:1OpenBible.infoHigh
NinevehBeyond this plate.11:30, 11:32OpenBible.infoHigh
Sodom10:12, 17:29OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 477)
AbileneBeyond this plate.3:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Arimathea23:50OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 301)
Bethphage19:29OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 336)
Bethsaida10:13OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 330)
Bethsaida9:10OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 374)
Chorazin10:13OpenBible.infoHigh
CyreneBeyond this plate.23:26OpenBible.infoHigh
Gennesaret5:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Golgotha23:33OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 397)
Ituraea3:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Nain7:11OpenBible.infoHigh
Samaria17:11OpenBible.infoHigh
Siloam13:4OpenBible.infoHigh
SouthBeyond this plate.11:31OpenBible.infoHigh
Syria2:2OpenBible.infoHigh
Trachonitis3:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Zarephath4:26OpenBible.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.