Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. Mark 7:31 During the first century there was a group of cities east of Israel known as the Decapolis (the Ten Cities), a league of ten Greco-Roman cities in their own Roman district. The region was on the east side of the Sea of Galilee, visible from where Jesus spent most of his time. We visited several of these cities. I’ve already mentioned Beth Shean from our Galilee trip. In Jesus’ day it was called Scythopolis. […]