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Biblical Context Explorer
The Gospels happen in a real place and time. Click an event on the timeline to see where it sits on the land of first-century Israel — and what that setting meant to the people who were there.
Keep the first readers in view
This map is a schematic of the land as it was in Jesus' day — the regions, towns, and waters named in the Gospels, not a modern street map. Geography was theology to these writers: where something happened often carried as much meaning as what happened.
Schematic, not to scale — relative positions of the places named in the Life of Jesus.
Start exploring
Choose an event on the timeline to light up its place on the map and read about its setting.