Biblical places
Caesarea
A Roman administrative port city built by Herod the Great, where Paul was imprisoned for two years and tried before Felix, Festus, and Agrippa before being sent to Rome.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Caesarea National Park (Israel)
- 32.5000, 34.8917
The site, designated a national park, is conclusively located; the sources' coordinates nearly match.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Acts 8:40
But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cesarea.
Acts 9:30
Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Cesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
Acts 10:1
There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
Acts 10:24
And the morrow after they entered into Cesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
Acts 11:11
And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Cesarea unto me.
Acts 12:19
And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.
Acts 18:22
And when he had landed at Cesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
Acts 21:8
And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Cesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.