Judea

Identified as

Judea 1

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.777° N, 35.234° E

• Jesus Leaves Judea toward Galileec. AD 27
• Good Samaritan Parable Taughtc. AD 29
• Herod kills Jamesc. AD 40
• Herod imprisons Peterc. AD 40
• An angel rescues Peter from prisonc. AD 40
• Voyage from Miletus to Jerusalem

Judea, Judeans

Founded by

Judah

People living there

Judah

• Ἰουδαία·Judea
• יְהוּד·Judahmeans “the praise of the Lord; confession”
• יְהוּדָה·Judea

Includes 2 verses that refer to Judea without naming it.

1. Ezra 5:1יְהוּד · Judah
   Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
2. Ezra 5:8יְהוּד · Judah
   Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is prospering in their hands.
3. Ezra 7:14יְהוּד · Judah
   You are sent by the king and his seven counselors to evaluate Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.
4. Ezra 9:9יְהוּדָה · Judea
   Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
5. Daniel 2:25יְהוּד · Judah
   Arioch hastily brought Daniel before the king and said to him, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who will tell the king the interpretation.”
6. Daniel 5:13יְהוּד · Judah
   So Daniel was brought before the king, who asked him, “Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah?
7. Daniel 6:13יְהוּד · Judah
   Then they told the king, “Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, shows no regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed. He still makes his petition three times a day.”
8. Matthew 2:1Ἰουδαία · Judea
   After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
9. Matthew 2:5Ἰουδαία · Judea
   “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
10. Matthew 2:22Ἰουδαία · Judea
    But when he learned that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee,
11. Matthew 3:1Ἰουδαία · Judea
    In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
12. Matthew 3:5Ἰουδαία · Judea
    People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.
13. Matthew 4:25Ἰουδαία · Judea
    Large crowds followed Him, having come from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
14. Matthew 19:1Ἰουδαία · Judea
    When Jesus had finished saying these things, He left Galilee and went into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
15. Matthew 24:16Ἰουδαία · Judea
    …then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
16. Mark 1:5Ἰουδαία · Judea
    People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
17. Mark 3:7Ἰουδαία · Judea
    So Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea, accompanied by a large crowd from Galilee, Judea,
18. Mark 10:1Ἰουδαία · Judea
    Then Jesus left that place and went into the region of Judea, beyond the Jordan. Again the crowds came to Him and He taught them, as was His custom.
19. Mark 13:14Ἰουδαία · Judea
    So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
20. Luke 1:5Ἰουδαία · Judea
    In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a descendant of Aaron.
21. Luke 1:65Ἰουδαία · Judea
    All their neighbors were filled with awe, and people throughout the hill country of Judea were talking about these events.
22. Luke 2:4Ἰουδαία · Judea
    So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.
23. Luke 3:1Ἰουδαία · Judea
    In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
24. Luke 4:44Ἰουδαία · Judea
    And He continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.
25. Luke 5:17Ἰουδαία · Judea
    One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.
26. Luke 6:17Ἰουδαία · Judea
    Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of His disciples was there, along with a great number of people from all over Judea, Jerusalem, and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.
27. Luke 7:17Ἰουδαία · Judea
    And the news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and all the surrounding region.
28. Luke 21:21Ἰουδαία · Judea
    Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.
29. Luke 23:5Ἰουδαία · Judea
    But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”
30. John 3:22Ἰουδαία · Judea
    After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
31. John 4:3Ἰουδαία · Judea
    He left Judea and returned to Galilee.
32. John 4:47Ἰουδαία · Judea
    When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.
33. John 4:54Ἰουδαία · Judea
    This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.
34. John 7:1Ἰουδαία · Judea
    After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
35. John 7:3Ἰουδαία · Judea
    So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
36. John 11:7Ἰουδαία · Judea
    …and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
37. John 11:8Referred to, not named
    “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”
38. John 11:54Referred to, not named
    As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.
39. Acts 1:8Ἰουδαία · Judea
    But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
40. Acts 2:9Ἰουδαία · Judea
    Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
41. Acts 8:1Ἰουδαία · Judea
    And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
42. Acts 9:31Ἰουδαία · Judea
    Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
43. Acts 10:37Ἰουδαία · Judea
    You yourselves know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee with the baptism that John proclaimed:
44. Acts 11:1Ἰουδαία · Judea
    The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
45. Acts 11:29Ἰουδαία · Judea
    So the disciples, each according to his ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
46. Acts 12:19Ἰουδαία · Judea
    After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.
47. Acts 15:1Ἰουδαία · Judea
    Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
48. Acts 21:10Ἰουδαία · Judea
    After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
49. Acts 26:20Ἰουδαία · Judea
    First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
50. Acts 28:21Ἰουδαία · Judea
    The leaders replied, “We have not received any letters about you from Judea, nor have any of the brothers from there reported or even mentioned anything bad about you.
51. Romans 15:31Ἰουδαία · Judea
    Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,
52. 2 Corinthians 1:16Ἰουδαία · Judea
    I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea.
53. Galatians 1:22Ἰουδαία · Judea
    I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
54. 1 Thessalonians 2:14Ἰουδαία · Judea
    For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,