1. Judea and Rome are now at war!

2. See the box “Felix —Procurator of Judea.”

3. Then let those in Judea begin fleeing to the mountains.”

4. The Roman Senate thus crowned Herod king of Judea.

5. Herod’s control over Judea was total; his authority, absolute.

6. * (Deuteronomy 28:68) Judea is virtually emptied of Jews.

7. (Matthew 9:37) The situation was the same in Judea.

8. Disciples followed him as he traveled around Galilee and Judea.

9. His superior, the Roman governor of Judea, resided in Caesarea.

10. This provoked a revolt in Judea as the Jews fought to remove Antiochus…

11. At the beginning of Festus’ time in office, Judea was plagued by bandits.

12. “Pass on over from here and go into Judea,” they advised him.

13. Jesus and his apostles are trekking northward, heading from Judea toward Galilee.

14. Thirty-three years passed, and Judea still chafed under the Roman yoke.

15. A material need developed among Christians in Judea in about 55 C.E.

16. IT IS about 46 C.E., and Judea is in the grip of famine.

17. Albinus, LUCCEIUS°Albinus, LUCCEIUS °, Roman procurator of Judea, 62–64 c.e

18. In 39 B.C.E., the Roman Senate appointed Herod—an Edomite—to be king of Judea.

19. But he learns that Herod’s wicked son Archelaus is now the king of Judea.

20. Go preach in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.’

21. The New Testament, too, cites examples of corvée in Judea, showing how widespread it was.

22. He later chose 70 of his disciples and sent them out in pairs to preach all around Judea.

23. (8:1-4) Persecution scattered all the disciples except the apostles throughout Judea and Samaria.

24. (Matthew 4:23) His cures did not merely help the sick people of Judea and Galilee.

25. The new Roman ruler, in turn, confirmed Herod as king of Judea and enlarged his territories.

26. Conquest, slavery, deportation, trade, and voluntary migration were among the causes of their dispersion from Judea.

27. Persecution early caused ‘all except the apostles to be scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.’

28. They would preach in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, “and to the most distant part of the earth.”

29. 3 It appears that Paul addressed his letter to the Hebrew Christians in Judea in 61 C.E.

30. But one remote area was a source of constant frustration for Rome —the restless province of Judea.

31. They had traveled with him earlier, but upon returning with Jesus from Judea, they resumed their fishing business.

32. Some of the southern mountains of Judea were also called the hill country of the Amorites (Deuteronomy 1:7, 19-20).

33. The district of Samaria was the first region outside of Judea to receive the Christian good news (Ac 8:1-5)

34. This involved walking down the Jordan Valley to below sea level until he reached “the frontiers of Judea . . . across the Jordan.”

35. FAMINE: Famines occurred in Rome, Greece and Judea, one of which is reported on in Acts 11:28

36. Jesus and his disciples were on their way from Judea to Galilee and had to pass through Samaria.

37. He did not disdainfully walk the dusty roads of Galilee and Judea, flinching at the sight of sinners.

38. The southern slopes of the mountains "of Judea are called the "mount of the Amorites" (Deut

39. Under military guard, the apostle was taken to Governor Antonius Felix at Caesarea, the Roman administrative capital of Judea.

40. 19 Just days before his death, Jesus gave a prophetic warning for the benefit of his disciples in Judea.

41. In outlying provinces like Judea, a governor (prefect) had military control, was responsible for financial administration, and served as a trial judge.

42. Later on, it widened out into all Judea, then Samaria, and finally “to the most distant part of the earth.”

43. Next, the chief priests and older men haul Jesus off to be tried by Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea.

44. As a result, violence flared up throughout Judea, Samaria, Galilee, the Decapolis, and Phoenicia, north into Syria, and south into Egypt.

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47. Antiochus is not known to have interfered in the religious life of his subjects except in Judea (see Mørkholm, Antiochus IV, p

48. But in 66 C.E. when the Roman procurator of Judea, Gessius Florus, seized funds from the sacred temple treasury, the enraged Jews had had enough.

49. Why did Tacitus say that it was “mysterious prophecies” that led the Jews to expect powerful rulers to come from Judea and “acquire universal empire”?

50. 15 As soon, therefore, as he sent them away, with the necessary instructions, to perambulate Judea, he performed the duties of a teacher in Galilee.

51. ‘But by the time Judah rose to be Patriarch of Judea, under the reign of the Antonine emperor Marcus Aurelius, relations with Rome had eased.’

52. Unexpectedly, Gallus withdrew his troops, opening the way for Christians in Jerusalem and Judea to obey Jesus’ words and flee to the mountains. —Matthew 24:15, 16.

53. His Conquests included Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia and Bactria, and he extended the boundaries of his own empire as far as Taxila, India (now Pakistan)

54. As the report of his activities spread, “great crowds followed him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from the other side of the Jordan.”

55. In that case, “the coming wrath” was centered on one particular locale, Jerusalem and Judea, so it could have been possible to flee in a literal way.

56. Demetrius sent him in 161 BCE to Judea with a large army, in order to invest the recreant Alcimus with the office of high priest (I Macc. vii.

57. “The Big A” – as he was tabbed in the tabloids – conquered the Persian Empire, including Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, Bactria and Mesopotamia, then continued eastward as

58. One history book states: “In addition to the taxes and dues exacted from the inhabitants of Judea, there was also a corvée [unpaid labor exacted by public authorities].

59. (Lu 4:44) After being baptized, Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness of Judah (or, Judea), a rather arid and desolate region frequented by rebels and bandits.

60. Anglican vs Catholic Though they came from the same Christian roots founded by Jesus Christ in Judea 2000 years ago, Anglicans and Catholics have diverged to become two separate forms of Christianity

61. It also describes how a great multitude of people out of Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Sidon came down to the plain “to hear him, and to be healed” (Luke 6:17).

62. Claudius was partly assisted in his accession to the throne by the diplomacy of *Agrippa I, whom he appointed as king of Judea, restoring all the lands ruled by his grandfather *Herod .

63. The Beatitudes provide a dizzying commentary designed to turn upside down the political and social world of the Roman Empire of Caesar Augustus and of the Jewish religious elite of Judea and Jerusalem

64. Jesus promises a geographic expansion at the outset, and Acts follows the news of his death and resurrection as it spreads from a small group of disciples in Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, and the faraway capital of Rome.

65. 16 It was likely in Judea, after the Festival of Booths in 32 C.E., “when the crowds were massing together” around Jesus, that he repeated his condemnation of them, saying: “This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign.

66. Cum ergo videritis Abominationem desolationis, quae dicta est a Daniele propheta, stantem in loco sancto, qui legit, intelligat : Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: tunc qui in Judaea sunt, fugiant ad montes : And he that is on the housetop, …

67. This ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of Palestine was the capital of the Roman province of Judea for about 600 years. It was given the name Caesarea maritima and Caesarea Palaestina to distinguish it from the other cities with the same name Caesarea.

68. Barrenness » Miraculously removed, instances of » Elisabeth Luke 1:5-25 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

69. Also, Jewish historian Josephus states that in the year of the battle of Carchemish Nebuchadnezzar conquered all of Syria-Palestine “excepting Judea,” thus contradicting Berossus and conflicting with the claim that 70 years of Jewish servitude began in Nebuchadnezzar’s accession year. —Antiquities of the Jews X, vi, 1.

70. (he had not Consented to their counsel and deed), a man of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was looking for the kingdom of God: Douay-Rheims Bible (The same had not Consented to their counsel and doings;) of Arimathea, a city of Judea; who also himself looked for the kingdom of …

71. Cum ergo videritis Abominationem desolationis quae dicta est a Danihelo propheta stantem in loco sancto qui legit intellegat: 24: 16: Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: tunc qui in Iudaea sunt fugiant ad montes: 24: 17: And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house: