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- A loose confederacy of ten cities in the ancient Middle East, settled by Greeks and controlled after 63 BC by Rome. Among the cities of the Decapolis, which lay mostly to the east of the Jordan River, were Damascus and Philadelphia (modern-day Amman).
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- proper noun A group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in
Jordan ,Syria , andPalestine .
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Later, Ptolemy enumerates eighteen cities, thus showing that the term Decapolis was applied to a region.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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It was so called because it included ten cities -- the meaning of the word Decapolis in Greek.
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And he departed, and began to publish -- not only among his friends, to whom Jesus immediately sent him, but in Decapolis -- so called, as being a region of ten cities.
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20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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When Jesus returned from the Gentile territory of Tyre and Sidon, he made his way around the lake to another Gentile territory, the ten Greek cities east of the Sea of Galilee known as the Decapolis.
Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007
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When Jesus returned from the Gentile territory of Tyre and Sidon, he made his way around the lake to another Gentile territory, the ten Greek cities east of the Sea of Galilee known as the Decapolis.
Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007
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Jesus did not believe that the timing was right for him to confront either Herod in Galilee or the authorities in Jerusalem so he decided to move east, across the Jordan River, into a region known as the Decapolis to wait through the winter.
The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006
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Jesus did not believe that the timing was right for him to confront either Herod in Galilee or the authorities in Jerusalem so he decided to move east, across the Jordan River, into a region known as the Decapolis to wait through the winter.
The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006
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The Decapolis was a small and remote mountain district of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Hippos (Sussita), together with Beit Shean and other cities east of the Jordan River, formed the "Decapolis", the area in which Jesus performed most of the miracles described in the New Testament.
Footprint of Roman Soldier’s Sandal Discovered at Hippos | Impact Lab 2007
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