These three cities existed in early Israel, and in Matthew 11 Jesus spoke against them because he had done great miracles there and they didn't repent. He said this about them "for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes." What's going on in these places now? Or are they even around now???
2007-03-15 10:53:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name, but adopted and adapted from the Latin Palæstina .
How can an Arab people have a western name instead of one in their own language? Because the use of the term "Palestinian" for an Arab group is only a modern political creation without any historic or ethnic grounds, and did not indicate any people before 1967.
An Arab writer and journalist declared: "There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the landmass. But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today... No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough".
- Joseph Farah, "Myths of the Middle East" -
Let us hear what other Arabs have said:
"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it".
- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 -
"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not".
- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946 -
"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria".
- Representative of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956
Concerning the Holy Land, the chairman of the Syrian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919 stated:
"The only Arab domination since the Conquest in 635 hardly lasted, as such, 22 years".
The preceding declarations by Arab politicians were made before 1967, as they had not the slightest knowledge of the existence of any Palestinian people.
2007-03-19 08:58:24 · answer #1 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jericho is still there. It's the oldest city in the world....over 10,000 yrs old and at least 20 civilizations built on top of each other. As for Capernaum, Chorazin, and Bethsaida, they are just excavation sites or old rubble. Just came back from Israel last week. Visited them all.
2014-06-18 12:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by Carlton Schofield 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you come to Israel you can take a tour of the biblical sites; which include Capernaum, Chorazin, and Bethsaida
http://www.immanuel-tours.com/biblical_sites_north.aspx
2007-03-23 03:41:45 · answer #3 · answered by gigiemilu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I know that the site of Bethsaida is under archaeology study. The University of Nebraska-Omaha has a grant to study it with the Israeli's anitquity department. Students go out every year to help with the excavations etc.
2007-03-15 10:57:09 · answer #4 · answered by psycho-cook 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually the pope is the anti-christ. Has been since the beginning. How can you gain the souls of millions? You pretend to be likend to a true Christian. Putting on the face of a lamb, while a wolf hides undernieth.
2016-03-18 04:57:57 · answer #5 · answered by Beverly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not under those names at least, but few cities survive in Israel from that era. A great many of them were razed by the Romans after the failed Jewish Revolt in 70 CE.
Most large cities in Israel were built by Arabs after the Diaspora (Jaffa, Haifa) of by Jewish settlers in recent times (Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan). Only Jerusalem has seen continuous setllement since ancient times.
2007-03-15 10:57:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you want to see what is left of Chorazin go here - http://www.nd.edu/~daune/near_east_arch/chorazin/chorazin.htm
For Bethsaida go here - http://virtualreligion.net/iho/bethsaida.html
For Capernaum go here - http://www.bibarch.com/ArchaeologicalSites/Capernaum.htm
It would appear that each of these cities have come and passed. Mostly digging and photo-taking going on if you know what I mean.
2007-03-23 00:22:52 · answer #7 · answered by rfurgy 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Dust in the wind........
2007-03-23 10:50:40 · answer #8 · answered by DocOnions 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋