Population of Perea, west of Gerasa and south of Pella, near Ragaba.
It was one of the towns visited during the first public works trip of Jesus and the twelve, between January 19 and April 6, 27. They stayed in Amathus for three weeks. [1] It was one of the towns visited during the Perea mission of the seventy, between January 3, 30 until the death of Jesus. [2] There Jesus healed ten lepers to show his apostles how wrong they were in regarding some peoples as incapable of accepting the gospel. [3]
See also: UB 128:1.14; UB 147:6.3.