what sorts of facts would make one believe more upon The Holy Bible?
Matthew 2:23 "And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene."
Nazareth is the capital and the largest
city in the
Northern District of
Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel"
Nazareth - Wikipedia
Nazareth
נָצְרַת
Natzrat
النَّاصِرَة
an-Nāṣira
Panoramic view of Nazareth, with the
Basilica of the Annunciation at the center
3478. Nazara or Nazaret or Nazareth
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Nazareth.
Or Nazaret nad-zar-et'; of uncertain derivation; Nazareth or Nazaret, a place in Palestine -- Nazareth.
(
/ˈnæzərəθ/;
Hebrew: נָצְרַת,
Natzrat;
Arabic: النَّاصِرَة,
an-Nāṣira;
Aramaic: ܢܨܪܬ,
Naṣrath)
Mark 7:31 "And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis."
Genesis 10:19 "And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha."
Sidon (
Arabic: صيدا, صيدون,
Ṣaydā; French: Saida;
Phoenician: ,
Ṣīdūn;
Biblical Hebrew: צִידוֹן,
Ṣīḏōn;
Greek: Σιδών), translated to 'fishery' or 'fishing-town',
[1] is the third-largest city in
Lebanon. It is located in the
South Governorate of Lebanon, on the
Mediterranean coast, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of
Tyre and 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital,
Beirut. In
Genesis, Sidon is the first-born son of
Canaan, who was a son of
Ham, thereby making Sidon a great grandson of
Noah.
Sidon - Wikipedia
Gaza...
Maybe Jesus walked into Lebanon???
Matthew 15:21-28
"Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
22And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord,
thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast
it to dogs.
27And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
28Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great
is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour."
Lebanon in the middle ages:
During the 7th century AD the Muslim Arabs
conquered Syria soon after the death of
Muhammad, establishing a new regime to replace the Romans (or
Byzantines as the Eastern Romans are sometimes called). Though Islam and the Arabic language were officially dominant under this new regime, the general populace still took time to convert from Christianity and the Syriac language. In particular, the Maronite community clung to its faith and managed to maintain a large degree of autonomy despite the succession of rulers over Syria. Muslim influence increased greatly in the seventh century, when the
Umayyad capital was established at nearby Damascus.
During the 11th century the
Druze faith emerged from a branch of
Islam. The new faith gained followers in the southern portion of Lebanon. The Maronites and the Druze divided Lebanon until the modern era. The major cities on the coast,
Acre,
Beirut, and others, were directly administered by Muslim Caliphs. As a result, the people became increasingly absorbed by Arabic culture.
History of Lebanon - Wikipedia
Lebanon before middle ages:
After two centuries of Persian rule, the
Macedonian ruler
Alexander the Great, during his war against Persia, attacked and burned
Tyre,
the most prominent Phoenician city. He conquered what is now Lebanon and other nearby regions in 332 BCE.
[5] After Alexander's death the region was absorbed into the
Seleucid Empire and became known as
Coele-Syria.
Christianity was introduced to the coastal plain of Lebanon from neighboring
Galilee, already in the 1st century. The region, as with the rest of Syria and much of Anatolia, became a major center of Christianity. In the 4th century it was incorporated into the Christian
Byzantine Empire. Mount Lebanon and its coastal plain became part of the
Diocese of the East, divided to provinces of
Phoenice Paralia and
Phoenice Libanensis (which also extended over large parts of modern Syria).
During the late 4th and early 5th centuries, a hermit named
Maron established a monastic tradition, focused on the importance of
monotheism and
asceticism, near the mountain range of
Mount Lebanon. The monks who followed Maron spread his teachings among the native Lebanese Christians and remaining pagans in the mountains and coast of Lebanon. These Lebanese Christians came to be known as
Maronites, and moved into the mountains to avoid religious persecution by Roman authorities.
[6] During the frequent
Roman–Persian Wars that lasted for many centuries, the
Sassanid Persians occupied what is now Lebanon from 619 to 629.
Mark 7:24-26 "And from thence he arose, and went
into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know
it: but he could not be hid.
25For a
certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
26The woman was a Greek, a
Syrophenician by nation;.."
Sidon (
Arabic: صيدا, صيدون,
Ṣaydā; French: Saida;
Phoenician: Ṣīdūn)
Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal (Mediterranean) region then called "Canaan" in Phoenician, Hebrew, Old Arabic, and Aramaic, "Phoenicia" in Greek and Latin, and "Pūt" in the Egyptian language. It is a part of the Canaanite subgroup of the Northwest Semitic languages. Other members of the family are Hebrew, Ammonite, Moabite and Edomite.
Phoenician language - Wikipedia
Genesis 10:6 "And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan."
