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Matthew 19: From Galilee to Judea beyond the Jordan

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Matthew 17:24ESV

When they came to , the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?”

ESV

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from and entered the region of beyond the .

Matthew 20:17ESV

And as Jesus was going up to , he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

Matthew 17
Matthew 20

When Jesus has finished his sayings he leaves Galilee and comes into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan, where large crowds follow him and he heals them there. In that place Pharisees test him with a question on divorce, children are brought for him to bless, and a rich young man asks what he must do to have eternal life and goes away sorrowful. The chapter ends with Jesus telling Peter what those who have left everything to follow him will receive.

Map of Matthew 19: From Galilee to Judea beyond the Jordan — 1 sites plotted

Regions on this map

Verse 1: the country Jesus leaves when he has finished these sayings.

  • Verse 1: the northern country where Jesus has been teaching, and which he now leaves for the south. The gazetteer places it with 500 votes at a single point for the whole region.

    a region, not a site: the representative point the sources give falls in the Sea of Galilee

Verses 1 and 2: the region of Judea beyond the Jordan, where the crowds follow him and he heals them.

  • Verse 1 names it as the region of Judea beyond the Jordan, and verse 2 has the crowds follow him and be healed there. The gazetteer gives no point of its own for the region; its 500 votes go to Jerusalem.

    a region, not a site: the one point on record is Jerusalem, which stands for the whole of Judea

Verse 1: the river that marks which part of Judea he enters, the part beyond it.

  • Verse 1: Matthew names the river to say where Jesus goes, the region of Judea beyond the Jordan, on its far side. All 500 votes identify it as the Jordan River; the pin is a point on its lower course north of the Dead Sea.

    Today: the Jordan River, between Israel and the West Bank and Jordan (representative point)

Matthew 19, verse by verse

  1. Matthew 19:1Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from and entered the region of beyond the .