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Jesus’ journeys in John

Between Galilee and Jerusalem, in the order John tells · 17 stops · ≈ 980 km in straight lines

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The Gospels do not all tell Jesus’ journeys in the same order. This route follows one Gospel only and does not combine it with the others.

Lines join the stops in the order of the text — the roads themselves are not known. Dashed: by ship. Pale: the site is uncertain.

Stops

  1. BethanyJohn 1:28All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
  2. CanaJohn 2:1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
  3. CapernaumJohn 2:12After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
  4. JerusalemJohn 2:13When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  5. SycharJohn 4:5So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
  6. CanaJohn 4:46So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
  7. JerusalemJohn 5:1Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  8. Sea of GalileeJohn 6:1After this, Jesus crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias).
  9. Capernaumby shipJohn 6:59Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
  10. JerusalemJohn 10:22At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,
  11. JordanJohn 10:40Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.
  12. BethanyJohn 11:18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,
  13. EphraimJohn 11:54As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.
  14. BethanyJohn 12:1Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
  15. JerusalemJohn 12:12The next day the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
  16. GolgothaJohn 19:17Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
  17. Sea of TiberiasJohn 21:1Later, by the Sea of Tiberias, Jesus again revealed Himself to the disciples. He made Himself known in this way:

Each point is the most likely site (OpenBible.info); a pale point means the identification is uncertain. Places whose site is unknown are not on the map.

Roman roads: the roads of the Roman Empire of about 300 BC – AD 300 by the atlas Itiner-e; dashed — roads it marks as hypothetical. The exact way of the journey along them is not described in the text.

Locations: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data (CC BY 4.0).

Land outlines: Natural Earth (public domain).

Roman roads: Itiner-e, the digital atlas of ancient roads © 2024 Brughmans, Pažout, de Soto and Bjerregaard Vahlstrup, Itiner-e · CC BY 4.0