Judea (Jerusalem) to Pella - c. AD 70

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Did All of the Judean Christians Flee to Pella?
Adam Maarschalk
JANUARY , 2017
https://adammaarschalk.com/2017/01/24/did-all-of-the-judean-christians-flee-to-pella/

To Pella and Back: A Relative of Jesus Leads the Saints
https://adammaarschalk.com/2018/03/29/to-pella-and-back-a-relative-of-jesus-leads-the-saints/
March , 2018
Adam Maarschalk

If you’ve studied first century history, you’re probably familiar with the story about the followers of Christ who fled from Judea to Pella just before the Jewish-Roman War began in AD 66. The story of their flight was told by early church leaders including Eusebius (AD 263-339), Epiphanius (AD 315-403), and Remigius (AD 437-533) – and perhaps also by Josephus (Wars 2.14.2, 2.20.1). They obeyed the words of Jesus (Matthew 24:15-21, Mark 13:14-19, Luke 21:20-23) and were protected in the wilderness for 3.5 years (Revelation 12:14). See this post for more details on that story.

(WHICH ARTICLE HAS THE MOST QUOTES FROM ECW)

I think the story of what happened to those believers after the war is even better. Jeffrey Butz, professor of World Religions at Penn State University, documents in his book, “The Secret Legacy of Jesus” (2009), that many of them returned to Jerusalem and built a Christian meeting place where the Upper Room (Acts 1:12-14) had been (p. 146). According to Eusebius and Hegesippus (AD 110-180), the person who led them to Pella and then back to Jerusalem was Symeon the son of Clopas.

Josephus on Pella
https://books.google.com/books?id=NHRbu6ee_p0C&pg=PA339
https://books.google.com/books?id=KO55DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA339

Eusebius
https://books.google.com/books?id=dTHudoOLh6UC&pg=PT560
https://books.google.com/books?id=AyDmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT188
https://books.google.com/books?id=jpjYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA82
https://books.google.com/books?id=RdsIAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA138
 
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2024 Conference on Long Island
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Pella Eusebius Epiphanius Remigius Josephus
https://www.google.com/search?q="Pe...kEHWoBEj8Q0pQJegQIAhAD&biw=1360&bih=494&dpr=1

Remove Remigius and books come up.

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Wikipedia - Flight to Pella
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_to_Pella
  • Brandon, Samuel G. F., The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church, (London: SPCK, 1957), p. 167-184.
  • Bourgel, Jonathan, "The Jewish Christians’ Move from Jerusalem as a pragmatic choice", in: Dan Jaffé (ed), Studies in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity, (Leyden: Brill, 2010), p. 107-138.
  • Pritz, Ray A., "On Brandon’s Rejection of the Pella Tradition", Immanuel 13 (1981), p. 39-43.
  • Gray, Barbara C., "The Movements of the Jerusalem Church during the First Jewish War", Journal of Ecclesiastical History 24 (1973), p. 1-7.
  • Gunther, John J., "The Fate of the Jerusalem Church. The Flight to Pella", Theologische Zeitschrift 29 (1973), p. 81-94.
  • Koester, Craig, "The Origin and Significance of the Flight to Pella Tradition", Catholic Biblical Quarterly 51 (1989), p. 90-106.
  • Sowers Sidney, "The Circumstances and Recollection of the Pella Flight", Theologische Zeitschrift 26 (1970), p. 305-320.
G. Uhlhorn, "Ebionites", in: A Religious Encyclopaedia or Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology, 3rd ed. (edited by Philip Schaff), p. 684–685 (vol. 2).\

O. Cullmann, "Ebioniten", in: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, p. 7435 (vol. 2).

van Houwelingen, P. H. R. (2003). "Fleeing forward: The departure of Christians from Jerusalem to Pella" (PDF). Westminster Theological Journal. 65. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 3, 2015.

Wikipedia, Pella, Jordan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella,_Jordan

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The Saints Went Back to Jerusalem from Pella After AD 70
Adam Maarschalk
https://answeringisraelonly.wordpre...ent-back-to-jerusalem-from-pella-after-ad-70/

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Lives of the most eminent fathers of the church that flourished in the first four centuries; with an historical account of the state of paganism under the first Christian emperors
William Cave (c. 1700) - new edition Henry Cary (1840)
https://books.google.com/books?id=_MOluJFheWAC
https://archive.org/details/livesofmosteminent02cave/mode/2up
https://ia601301.us.archive.org/9/items/livesofmostemine01cave/livesofmostemine01cave.pdf

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Constantine and Eusebius (1981)
Timothy David Barnes
https://books.google.com/books?id=LGDjJK-JeSwC&pg=PA350

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FLEEING FORWARD: THE DEPARTURE OF CHRISTIANS FROM JERUSALEM TO PELLA (2003)
P. H. R. van Houweuncen
https://jamestabor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Pella-Flight-Houwelingen.pdf
James Tabor

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The fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church (1957)
S. G. F. Brandon - Samuel George Frederick
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Fall_of_Jerusalem_and_the_Christian.html?id=zrdMAwAAQBAJ
https://archive.org/details/fallofjerusalemc0000bran
https://books.google.com/books?id=zrdMAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA177

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The Circumstances and Recollection of the Pella Flight (German(
Sidney Sowers
https://ixtheo.de/Record/830505717
Online
https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/volumes?UID=thz-001

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Robert Houston Smith (R. H.)
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q="r+h+smith""from+pella"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41685322

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The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume 2, Volume 2 (2014)
Emil Schürer, Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar
https://books.google.com/books?id=D29jAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA147

Emil Schurer (1891)
https://books.google.com/books?id=GFc-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115

Pella p. 147-148

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Studies in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity: Text and Context (2010)
Dan Jaffe
https://books.google.com/books?id=JuB5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA121

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The Apostolic Age in Patristic Thought (2004)
edited by Anthony Hilhorst
Adelbert Davids
https://books.google.com/books?id=Jux5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA202

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A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics' (2005)
edited by Antti Marjanen, Petri Luomanen
https://books.google.com/books?id=fOx5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA290

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The New Testament Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ (2006)
Robert Eisenman
https://books.google.com/books?id=eT4CFLWCB8wC&pg=PA524

James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998)
https://books.google.com/books?id=XhJcW8h2BlMC&pg=PT415

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The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 3 (1984)
By William Horbury
https://books.google.com/books?id=AW2BuWcalXIC&pg=PA747

Also
https://books.google.com/books?id=6UTfmw_zStsC&pg=PA298

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Jewish Ways of Following Jesus: Redrawing the Religious Map of Antiquity (2010)
by Edwin Keith Broadhead
https://books.google.com/books?id=C97_rPZRbuUC&pg=PA89

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Leisure, Pleasure and Healing: Spa Culture and Medicine in Ancient Eastern ... (2007)
Esti Dvorjetski
https://books.google.com/books?id=6RCbdK8JxjsC&pg=PA163

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Related Strangers: Jews and Christians 70-170 C. E. (2004)
Stephen Wilson
https://books.google.com/books?id=OD3OnknP2_wC&pg=PA146

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Itineraria Phoenicia (2004)
Edward Lipiński
https://books.google.com/books?id=SLSzNfdcqfoC&pg=PA532

uses Verheyden

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The Birth of Christianity (2020)
Maurice Goguel
https://books.google.com/books?id=5m0IEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA138

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The Book of Job: Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Evidence (2015)
Gerard Gertoux
https://books.google.com/books?id=sYdPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113

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Nazarene Jewish Christianity (1988)
Ray Pritz
https://books.google.com/books?id=vh84AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA122

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Edward Gibbon
https://books.google.com/books?id=yvlYUpqe-JMC&pg=PA292

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Continues with more on p. 6
Gundry
Gidney
Ellis
Routledge Library
Verheyden in German
Andrews
Eric Meyers
Davies
MacKnight
Luomanen again
Jesse Lasken
Eung Chun Park
Hawthorne
Carrington
Limor
Popovic
Hennell - 1870
Ekeocha
Eli Smith
Edward Robinson - Eli Smith
Hugh Jackson Lawlor
Geroge R. Edwards
Adam Clarke
Weethee
Charles William Wilson
Schnabel
Broadus
Hovey
Maitland
Joseph Spencer
William L. Lane

up to p. 18

Ayerst - 1848
https://books.google.com/books?id=szBdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA224

Biblical Reseaches - 1857
https://books.google.com/books?id=8ClRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA324

Scottish Review - 1890 - C. R. Conder - nice Montanists
https://books.google.com/books?id=POoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA215

Bibliotheca - 1855 - E. Robinson - Pella excavations
https://books.google.com/books?id=8NoWAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA141

Simon Patrick
https://books.google.com/books?id=e_5PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA198

Burgon
https://books.google.com/books?id=JN8f4ZTH8goC&pg=PA124

Schaff
maybe Edersheim
maybe Bauckham
maybe Hugh Schonfeld
maybe John A. T. Robinson

Many German

Nathaniel Lardner
https://books.google.com/books?id=EmxGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA507

Brandon above
https://books.google.com/books?id=tIC7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA211

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The flight of the Christians to Pella (1990)
Joseph Verheyden
https://ixtheo.de/Record/1635628016

EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN TRANSJORDAN
Bastiaan Van Elderen
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...YQFnoECCcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3YuR88op-Pn2jX93MtDNxV

The fate of the Jerusalem Church : the flight to Pella (1973)
John J. Gunther
https://ixtheo.de/Record/830482407
https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/volumes?UID=thz-001

The Origin and Significance of the Flight to Pella Tradition (1989)
Craig Koester

Description: The Origin and Significance of the Flight to Pella Tradition :: IxTheo

ixtheo.de ixtheo.de

Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online
Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste (2022)
Mark Wilson
https://ixtheo.de/Record/1838014187

Church History Volume One
From Christ to Pre-Reformation (2004)
Everett Ferguson (b. 1933)
https://fbcclassroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EverettFerguson-Church-History-Vol.-1.pdf

Eusebius, the fourth-century church historian, reports that during the Roman-Jewish War of 66–70, Christians in Jerusalem took flight to Pella, across the Jordan River. The report’s historicity has been questioned, and elements of it may not be correct; but there seems good reason to accept a flight by Christians from Jerusalem and a return by some after the war
 
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Facebook - James Tabor - Aug, 2025
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The thumbnail image of this photo is to represent the thousands of followers of Jesus who fled across the Jordan from Jerusalem, just north of the Dead Sea, in the year 66 CE, to escape into the Decapolis area south of Pella. James the Just, eldest surviving brother of Jesus had been brutally murdered in 63 CE by Annas, son of Annas, Godfather of the Mafia High Priesthood that also had instigated the murder of Jesus. Simon his brother took over the leadership of the movement. This flight is mentioned in Mark 13:14-20 and Revelation 12:13-17, and reported by Eusebius, Church History Ecclesiastical History (Book 3. 5.3) and Epiphanius, Panarion (29.7.7–8 and 30.2.7). They settled in the general region of Beroea near Coele-Syria and in the Decapolis near Pella, and permitted there into the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Remnants of the group, including Simon and other Desposuynai, or members of the extended Jesus family, returned to Jerusalem around 73 CE and rebuilt the "Synagogue of the Apostles" on Mt Zion, as Pixner has documented.
 
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