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The Places of Matthew

Matthew names 38 places; Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea most often. 38 of them can be put on a map, 30 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 Matthew. Every place is listed in the table below.34°E35°E36°E30°N31°N32°N33°NJerusalemBethlehemNazarethCapernaumMount of OlivesSidonSodomTyreBethanyAkeldamaArimatheaBethphageBethsaidaCaesarea PhilippiChorazinGadaraGethsemaneGolgothaGomorrahHoly PlaceJerichoMagadanRamahZionGalileeJerusalemBethlehemNazarethCapernaumEastSidonSodomTyreAkeldamaArimatheaBethsaidaCaesarea PhilippiGadaraGomorrahJerichoMagadanRamahSyriaN040 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
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The Holy Land, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 5 places lie beyond the plate and are in the table.

Every place in Matthew

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
Galilee2:22, 3:13, 4:12, 4:13, 4:15, 4:23, 4:25, 11:1, 14:1, 15:21, 17:22, 19:1 and 7 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Jerusalem2:1, 2:3, 3:5, 4:5, 4:25, 5:35, 15:1, 16:21, 20:17, 20:18, 21:1, 21:10 and 3 moreOpenBible.infoHigh
Judea2:1, 2:5, 2:22, 3:1, 3:5, 4:12, 4:25, 19:1, 24:16OpenBible.infoHigh
Bethlehem2:1, 2:5, 2:6, 2:8, 2:9, 2:16OpenBible.infoHigh
Jordan3:5, 3:6, 3:13, 4:15, 4:25, 19:1OpenBible.infoHigh
Nazareth2:23, 4:13, 13:54, 21:11, 26:71OpenBible.infoHigh
Capernaum4:13, 8:5, 11:23, 17:24OpenBible.infoHigh
EgyptBeyond this plate.2:13, 2:14, 2:15, 2:19OpenBible.infoHigh
BabylonBeyond this plate.1:11, 1:12, 1:17OpenBible.infoHigh
East2:1, 2:2, 2:9OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount of Olives21:1, 24:3, 26:30OpenBible.infoHigh
Sea of Galilee4:18, 9:1, 15:29OpenBible.infoHigh
Sidon11:21, 11:22, 15:21OpenBible.infoHigh
Sodom10:15, 11:23, 11:24OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 477)
Tyre11:21, 11:22, 15:21OpenBible.infoHigh
Bethany21:17, 26:6OpenBible.infoHigh
Akeldama27:8OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 248)
Arimathea27:57OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 301)
Bethphage21:1OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 336)
Bethsaida11:21OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 330)
Caesarea Philippi16:13OpenBible.infoHigh
Canaan15:22OpenBible.infoHigh
Chorazin11:21OpenBible.infoHigh
CyreneBeyond this plate.27:32OpenBible.infoHigh
Decapolis4:25OpenBible.infoHigh
Gadara8:28OpenBible.infoHigh
Gennesaret14:34OpenBible.infoHigh
Gethsemane26:36OpenBible.infoHigh
Golgotha27:33OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 397)
Gomorrah10:15OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 415)
Holy Place24:15OpenBible.infoHigh
Jericho20:29OpenBible.infoHigh
Magadan15:39OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 428)
NinevehBeyond this plate.12:41OpenBible.infoHigh
Ramah2:18OpenBible.infoHigh
SouthBeyond this plate.12:42OpenBible.infoHigh
Syria4:24OpenBible.infoHigh
Zion21:5OpenBible.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.