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Syria is often considered to be the location where the author of Matthew wrote his gospel. Mark's Gospel does not mention Syria in the parallel text: His fame spread throughout all the region around Galilee; [4] similarly in Luke's Gospel, News of Him went out through all the surrounding region. [5]
The country of Syria is administratively subdivided into 14 governorates, which are sub-divided into 65 districts, which are further divided into 284 sub-districts. [1] Each of the governorates and districts has its own centre or capital city, except for Rif Dimashq Governorate and Markaz Rif Dimashq district. All the sub-districts have their ...
Matthew 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament of Christian Bible. [1] [2] Many translations of the gospel and biblical commentaries separate the first section of chapter 4 (verses 1-11, Matthew's account of the Temptation of Christ by the devil) from the remaining sections, which deal with Jesus' first public preaching and the gathering of his first disciples.
The three unrepentant cities lay around the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The "Woes to the unrepentant cities" is a set of significant passages in The Gospel of Matthew and Luke that record Jesus' pronouncement of judgement on several Galilean cities that have rejected his message despite witnessing His miracles. This episode marks a ...
Aram/Aramea – (Modern Syria) Arbela (Erbil/Irbil) – Assyrian city; Archevite; Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus. Arrapkha – Assyrian city, modern Kirkuk; Ashdod; Ashkelon; Ashur/Asshur/Assur – capital city of Assyria; Assyria – Mesopotamian Semitic state
Matthew 4:25 is the twenty-fifth, and final, verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. This verse is part of a brief summary of and introduction to Jesus' ministry in Galilee, which will be recounted in the next several chapters. This verse lists the many locations from which people came to see Jesus.
The city became completely besieged by the Army after the capture of 3 Syrian journalists by the rebels near the city. [84] The Syrian Army took control of the city and cleared it of rebel presence 17 August, while the Syrian National Council described the area a "sinister zone". [85] The three captured journalists were found by the Syrian Army ...
[2] Yet the following OT verse , which points towards the salvation of a Messiah, is quoted in full in the following NT verse; see Matthew 4:16. Capernaum, where Jesus had relocated, was in the region of the Tribe of Naphtali in Galilee, it was also near the land of the Tribe of Zebulun. In the Greek "toward the sea" ("by the way of the sea ...