In AD 39, Agrippa accused Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, of planning a rebellion against Roman rule with the help of Parthia.

In the Antiquities of the Jews ( Book 18, Chapter 5, 2 ) Josephus refers to the imprisonment and death of John the Baptist by order of Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee and Perea.

* Agrippa I, king of Judaea, successfully accuses Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, of conspiracy against Caligula.

Herod Antipas becomes tetrarch of Galilee and Perea.

Agrippa's territory comprised most of Israel, including Iudaea, Galilee, Batanaea and Perea.

After a brief seclusion, through the mediation of his wife Cypros and his sister Herodias, Agrippa was given a sum of money by his uncle, Herodias ' husband, Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, and was allowed to take up residence in Tiberias, and received the rank of aedile in that city, with a small yearly income.

* Herod Antipas, an ancient leader of Galilee and Perea

From 110 BCE, with the Seleucid empire disintegrating, the dynasty became fully independent, expanded in to the neighbouring regions of Galilee, Iturea, Perea, Idumea and Samaria, and took the title " basileus ".

He was a ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch (" ruler of a quarter ").

* 57 – 55 BCE: Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into five districts of legal and religious councils known as sanhedrin based at Jerusalem, Sepphoris ( Galilee ), Jericho, Amathus ( Perea ) and Gadara.

Herod Antipater (, Hērǭdēs Antipatros ; born before 20 BCE – died after 39 CE ), known by the nickname Antipas, was a 1st-century CE ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch (" ruler of a quarter ").

According to the final version of his will, Antipas ' elder brother Archelaus was now to become king of Judea, Idumea and Samaria, while Antipas would rule Galilee and Perea with the lesser title of tetrarch.

* Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee and Perea

In the New Testament accounts, the principle locations for the ministry of Jesus were Galilee and Judea, with activities also taking place in surrounding areas such as Perea and Samaria.

Scholars generally assume that the route Jesus followed from from Galilee to Jerusalem passed through Perea.

The last week in Jerusalem is the conclusion of the journey which Jesus had started in Galilee through Perea and Judea.

Another, Herod Antipas, ruled as tetrarch of Galilee and Perea from 4 BCE to 39 CE, being then dismissed by Caligula.

While John may have been in Judea in this period, it is clear he was on the other side of Jordan River at a later date when he was captured and executed by Herod Antipas who ruled Galilee and Perea.

Perea (" the country beyond " in Greek ), a portion of the kingdom of Herod the Great occupying the eastern side of the Jordan River valley, from about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee to about one third the way down the eastern shore of the Dead Sea ; it did not extend too far inland.

Herod the Great's kingdom was divided by the Romans into a tetrarchy, of which Herod Antipas received both Perea and Galilee.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Between the 7th and 11th centuries, Jewish scribes, called the Masoretes and located in Galilee and Jerusalem, established the Masoretic Text, the final text of the Hebrew Bible.

Most scholars hold that Jesus lived in Galilee and Judea The Talmud refers to " Jesus the Nazarene " several times and scholars such as Andreas Kostenberger and Robert Van Voorst hold that some of these references are to Jesus .. Nazareth is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian gospels portray it as an insignificant village, John 1: 46 asking " Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?

Cana of Galilee is not mentioned in any other book of the Bible, nor in any other contemporary source.

The chapter John 21 in the Bible contains an account of the post-Resurrection appearance in Galilee, which the text describes as the third time Jesus had appeared to his disciples.

* Cana, a place in Galilee mentioned in the Bible

The Galilee, site of Josephus ' governorship, in Late Antiquity | late antiquity.

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Galilee

Poussin's Tancred, Prince of Galilee | Tancred and Erminia ( early 1630s, oil on canvas, 98. 5 x 146. 5 cm, Hermitage Museum ) shows an evolution from Poussin's early emulation of Caravaggio to a return to classicism.

Image: Rainbow Cave Israel. JPG | Rainbow Cave arch in the Galilee, Israel.

Galilee in Late Antiquity | late antiquity.

Image: Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 005. jpg | Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854

Image: Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 005. jpg | Eugène Delacroix, Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854

Image: Rembrandt Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee. jpg | The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633, by Rembrandt van Rijnstolen March 18, 1990

Image: Hans Memling-A Virgem em Lamentação. jpg | Hans Memling ( German, 1435-1494 ) The mourning Virgem with St. John the Baptist and the pious women of Galilee, 1485 / 90.

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Roman Province of Galilee

Tsiyun of Rabbeinu Behayé and his yeshiva | talmidim, ` Hokok in the Galilee | Galil, Israel

A view of Arraba, Galilee | Arraba from the road leading to its northern limit

From there we see Jesus ' ministry move from Galilee ( chapters 4 – 9 ), through Samaria and Judea ( chs.

The Samaritans of Samaria ( see map at Iudaea Province ), had their temple on Mount Gerizim, and along with some other differences, see Samaritanism, were in conflict with Jews of Judea and Galilee and other regions who had their Temple in Jerusalem and practiced Judaism.

" Antioch, a coastal city in northern Syria and the third largest in the Roman world, is often mentioned as this later home of the Matthean community, but it could have been any large city in the eastern Mediterranean with large Jewish and Christian populations, and recent research points towards a location near Galilee or Judea.

In Roman times, the country was divided into Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, which comprised the whole northern section of the country, and was the largest of the three regions under the tetrarchy.

When Iudaea became a Roman province, formed from a merger of Judea, Samaria and Idumea, Galilee was not a part of it.

* Freyne, Sean, " Galilee and Judea in the First Century ," in Margaret M. Mitchell and Frances M. Young ( eds ), Cambridge History of Christianity.

The Gospels of Mark, Matthew and ( most clearly ) Luke relate that Jesus came from Galilee to John in Judea and was baptized by him, whereupon the Spirit descended upon Jesus and a voice from Heaven told him he was God's Son.

The People's Front of Judea, composed of the Pythons ' characters, harangue their " rivals " with cries of " splitters " and stand vehemently opposed to the Judean People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front, the Campaign for a Free Galilee, and the Popular Front of Judea ( the last composed of a single old man, mocking the size of real revolutionary Trotskyist factions ).

In the time of Jesus, Iudaea of the Romans was divided into three toparchies, Judea, Samaria, and Galilee.

For example, in John 7: 1-9 Jesus moves around in Galilee but avoids Judea, because " the Jews " were looking for a chance to kill him.

For example, the Jesus Seminar translates this as " Judeans ", i. e. residents of Judea, in contrast to residents of Galilee.

* The Roman province of Iudaea ( plus Galilee ) becomes Syria Palaestina, the first use of the name Palestine as a designation for Judea.

The Israelites (, Standard: ; Tiberian: ; ISO 259-3: ) were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods ( 15th to 6th centuries BCE ), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively, though a Jewish diaspora had already developed outside of Judea and Galilee.

Bacchides rapidly marches through Judea after carrying out a massacre of the Assideans in Galilee.

William Whiston, A. M .) book 3, section 48, mentions Akrabbim in this way: " Now as to the country of Samaria, it lies between Judea and Galilee ; it begins at a village that is in the great plain called Ginea, and ends at the Acrabbene toparchy, and is entirely of the same nature with Judea ; for both countries are made up of hills and valleys, and are moist enough for agriculture, and are very fruitful.

The region was later named Samaria ( as distinguished from Judea or Galilee ) mostly consisted of Ephraim's territory.

Six years later Hyrcanus was deprived of the remainder of political authority and ultimate jurisdiction was given to the Proconsul of Syria, who ruled through Hyrcanus's Idumaean associate Antipater, and later Antipater's two sons Phasael ( military governor of Judea ) and Herod ( military governor of Galilee ).

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem ; ( because he was of the house and lineage of David :)

Following the Temple's destruction at the end of the First Jewish Revolt and the displacement to the Galilee of the bulk of the remaining Jewish population in Judea at the end of the Bar Kochva Revolt, Jewish tradition in the Talmud and poems from the period records that the descendants of each priestly watch established a separate residential seat in towns and villages of the Galilee, and maintained this residential pattern for at least several centuries in anticipation of the reconstruction of the Temple and reinstitution of the cycle of priestly courses.