100 Bible Verses about Galilee Lake

Matthew 4:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes

While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

Matthew 15:29 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there.

John 6:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.

Numbers 34:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.

John 21:1-25 ESV / 20 helpful votes

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.” ...

Luke 5:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes

On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,

John 21:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way.

Mark 1:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

Isaiah 9:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

Matthew 4:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—

Joshua 13:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.

Mark 7:31 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.

Joshua 12:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;

Luke 5:1-11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” ...

1 Kings 9:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

Joshua 21:32 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands—three cities.

Joshua 20:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes

So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Mark 1:16-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets. And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him.

Matthew 28:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you.”

1 Chronicles 6:76 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.

Mark 16:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.”

Mark 14:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”

Mark 6:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

Mark 1:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,

Matthew 28:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.

Matthew 28:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”

Matthew 27:55 ESV / 10 helpful votes

There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,

Matthew 26:32 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”

Matthew 19:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.

Matthew 17:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes

As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men,

Matthew 8:23-27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”

Matthew 4:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

Matthew 4:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.

Matthew 4:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

Matthew 4:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.

Matthew 2:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.

2 Kings 15:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

Matthew 3:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

Acts 9:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.

John 21:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.

Mark 15:41 ESV / 8 helpful votes

When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

Mark 7:31-35 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

Mark 3:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea

Mark 1:39 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

Mark 1:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.

Mark 1:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

Matthew 21:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

Matthew 4:18-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

Deuteronomy 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

Acts 20:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Acts 12:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.

Acts 1:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

John 7:52 ESV / 6 helpful votes

They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

John 7:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

John 7:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

John 4:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

John 2:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

Luke 23:55 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

Luke 23:49 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.

Luke 17:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.

Luke 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Mark 14:70 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.”

Mark 9:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes

They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know,

Matthew 26:69 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 14:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.

Matthew 9:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city.

Matthew 8:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.

Matthew 4:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”

Isaiah 27:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea. In that day, “A pleasant vineyard, sing of it! I, the Lord, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day; I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together. Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me.” ...

1 Kings 15:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

Joshua 19:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,

Joshua 12:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, one;

Joshua 11:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Colossians 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

Colossians 1:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

2 Corinthians 11:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

1 Corinthians 10:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Romans 15:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Acts 13:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

Acts 10:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed:

Acts 9:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Acts 7:59 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 2:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Acts 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

John 21:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

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