Sidon
High confidence~500 m
- Modern identification
- Sidon / Saida · Lebanon
- Coordinates
- 33.5570, 35.3720
Secure identification of Sidon.
What happened at Sidon
- The second withdrawal to the region of Tyre and Sidon and the healing of the daughter of a syro-phoenician woman
Mark 7:24-30; Matthew 15:21-28
The episode occurs in the Tyre-Sidon region; the exact village is not named. Secure identification of Tyre.
- The third withdrawal north through Phoenicia and east towards hermon and south into Decapolis (keeping out of the territory of Herod antipas) with the healing of the deaf and dumb man and the feeding of the four thousand
Mark 7:31-8:9; Matthew 15:29-38
A multi-region route from Phoenicia toward Decapolis; Hippos is only a Decapolis representative point. Decapolis was a league/region, not one point. Hippos is used as a representative city near the Gospel route.