Caesarea Maritima

"Caesarea by the Sea"

The pictures you see above are the result of the determination to build a super port on the easter coast of the Mediterranean by Herod. Herod wanted more cities of Rome in the region. Caesarea by the Sea also became the capital of the provice of Judea, the home of prefects such as Pilate (John 19:1).

Herod Agrippa 1 lived and died there (Acts 12:19-23). Philip the Evangelist, oe of the seaven, with his four daughters lived there (Acts 6:5, 21:8-9). Having witnessed the Ethiopian eunuch, Philip arrived there after his preaching mission (Acts 8). Paul passed through Caesarea several times (Acts 9:30, 18:22, and perhaps 21:8), was imprisoned there by Felix and questioned there by Festus (Acts 23:23, 25:1-7).

This city was covered by the "sands of time" for centuries. Sand that poured into the Mediterranean from the Nile and wind driven upon the beaches of Palestine. A Roman column was found by a farmer in 1949, and thus began the unearthing of this great city. There is also the ruins of a Roman Aqueduct that would have brought fresh water to the city by gravity.

Next time... Mount Carmel and the Valley of Megiddo...

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