Four Gospels Map These are the main places that Jesus lived and worked. See the explanation under the map.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, city B, just left of the Dead Sea. Luke 2:22 says the baby was brought to the temple in Jerusalem (A) when he was just a few days old. After the wise men visited the family, they escaped to Egypt (off the map, to the left). Later, after King Herod died, the family went to Mary's home town, Nazareth, (C) which was in the region called Galilee (see the brackets at the left side of the coast line).

At the age of 12, the family came to Jerusalem again.

When Jesus was about 30 years old, he was baptized in the Jordan river, and then went into the wilderness (left of the Dead Sea).

For the next 3 years, Jesus spent most of his time in the region of Galilee. His first miracle, turning water into wine, was done at Cana (D), (John chapter 2).  He raised a young man from the dead at Nain (J) (Luke 7:11). A lot of time was spent in the cities along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, cities like Tiberias (E), Capernaum (F), and Bethsaida (G).

In Mark 5:1, Jesus crosses the Sea of Galilee and goes to a region that was not part of Israel, to the right of the Jordan River. Verse one says that the people who lived there were called Gerasenes, and verse 20 tells us that the area was called Decapolis. (This is a Greek word that means "ten cities," so it means that the Greeks had built ten cities on the right side of the Jordan River.)

Mark 7:24 tells us that Jesus left Israel and traveled to the cities of Tyre (J) and Sidon (K), where he healed a woman called a Syrophoenician, which simply means that she lived in the part of Syria that is called Phoenicia.

In Mark 8:27, Jesus is again outside of Israel, up at Caesarea Philippi (H). The mountain on which Jesus spoke to Moses and Elijah then was probably Mount Hermon (the triangle under the word Syria), though some people think it was Mount Tabor (the triangle under the letter E).

John 4:3-5 mentions all three of the regions that are in brackets: Judea, Samaria, and Galilee. The town of Sychar, in the region of Samaria, is at the letter I.

The events of Jesus' arrest and death take place in and nearby Jerusalem. that would include cities like Bethany.

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