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Today Caesarea Philippi is a site of archeological importance, and lies within the Hermon Stream Nature Reserve.[42] The ruins are extensive and have been thoroughly excavated. Within the city area the remains of Agrippa’s palace, the cardo, a bath-house and a Byzantine-period synagogue can be seen.
Caesarea Philippi was an ancient Roman city located at the southwestern base of Mount Hermon. It was adjacent to a spring, grotto, and related shrines dedicated to the Greek god Pan. Now nearly uninhabited, Caesarea is an archaeological site in the Golan Heights.
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In the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus is said to have approached the area near the city, but without entering the city itself. Jesus, while in this area, asked his closest disciples who they thought he was. Accounts of their answers, including the Confession of Peter, are found in the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Here Saint Peter made his confession of Jesus as the Messiah and the “Son of the living God”, and Christ in turn gave a charge to Peter. The apostles Peter, James and John were eyewitnesses to the Transfiguration of Christ, which happened “in a high place nearby” and is recorded in Matthew (17:1-7), Mark (9:2-8) and Luke (9:28-36).
According to the Christian ecclesiastical tradition, a woman from Paneas, who had been bleeding for 12 years, was miraculously cured by Jesus.
In the New Testament, this pericope and the account of the Transfiguration of Jesus which follows it appear towards the middle of the Gospel narrative and jointly mark the beginnings of the gradual disclosure of the identity of Jesus to his disciples.[8][9]
The setting is near Caesarea Philippi in northern Judea and is at the beginning of the final journey to Jerusalem which ends in the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus.[2]
