The Places of Mark
Mark names 27 places; Jerusalem, Galilee and Nazareth most often. 27 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.
- Located with confidence
- Location uncertain
- Mountain
Every place in Mark
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.
| Place | References | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerusalem | 1:5, 3:8, 3:22, 7:1, 10:17, 10:32, 10:33, 11:1, 11:11, 11:15, 11:27, 14:13 and 2 more | OpenBible.info | High |
| Galilee | 1:9, 1:14, 1:28, 1:39, 3:7, 6:21, 7:24, 8:27, 9:30, 14:28, 15:41, 16:7 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Nazareth | 1:9, 1:24, 6:1, 10:47, 14:67, 16:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bethany | 11:1, 11:11, 11:12, 14:3 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Capernaum | 1:21, 2:1, 9:33, 10:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Jordan | 1:5, 1:9, 3:8, 10:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Judea | 1:5, 3:7, 10:1, 13:14 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Mount of Olives | 11:1, 13:3, 14:26 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sidon | 3:8, 7:24, 7:31 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Tyre | 3:8, 7:24, 7:31 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Bethsaida | 6:45, 8:22 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 374) |
| Decapolis | 5:20, 7:31 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sea of Galilee | 1:16, 7:31 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Arimathea | 15:43 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 301) |
| Bethphage | 11:1 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 336) |
| Caesarea Philippi | 8:27 | OpenBible.info | High |
| CyreneBeyond this plate. | 15:21 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Dalmanutha | 8:10 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 310) |
| Gennesaret | 6:53 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gerasa | 5:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Gethsemane | 14:32 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Golgotha | 15:22 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 397) |
| Gomorrah | 6:11 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 415) |
| Idumea | 3:8 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Jericho | 10:46 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Phoenicia | 7:26 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Sodom | 6:11 | OpenBible.info | Uncertain (score 477) |
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.