Batanea

• Batanea

138:2.41. Mat­thew Levi, the cus­toms col­lec­tor of Ca­per­naum, who had his of­fice just to the east of the city, near the bor­ders of Batanea. He was se­lected by An­drew.

• Batanea

154:7.4The crowd lin­gered about the home of Zeb­e­dee watch­ing these two boats make their way over the lake to­ward the east­ern shore, and they were well started when the Je­ru­sa­lem of­fi­cers hur­ried up and be­gan their search for Je­sus. They re­fused to be­lieve he had es­caped them, and while Je­sus and his party were jour­ney­ing north­ward through Batanea, the Phar­isees and their as­sis­tants spent al­most a full week vainly search­ing for him in the neigh­bor­hood of Ca­per­naum.

• Batanea

155:0.1Soon af­ter land­ing near Kheresa on this event­ful Sun­day, Je­sus and the twenty-four went a lit­tle way to the north, where they spent the night in a beau­ti­ful park south of Beth­saida-Ju­lias. They were fa­mil­iar with this camp­ing place, hav­ing stopped there in days gone by. Be­fore re­tir­ing for the night, the Mas­ter called his fol­low­ers around him and dis­cussed with them the plans for their pro­jected tour through Batanea and north­ern Gal­i­lee to the Phoeni­cian coast.