Bethsaida, a village on the western shore of the Lake of Galilee, the birthplace of Peter and Andrew and Philip. Its site has been identified with a heap of grass-grown ruins.—At the northern extremity of the lake was another Bethsaida, a village, near which the five thousand were fed. Philip the Tetrarch raised it to the dignity of a town, and renamed it Julias, in honour of the Emperor Augustus's daughter.
Bethsaida
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 109
Source scan(s): p. 0120