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Saint Peter: A Biography
Grant disputes the tradition that Peter was of poor and humble origins.
St peter baptist biography books
“Although Jewish, Bethsaida was partly Greek-speaking, and stood in Gentile surroundings, helping to justify the phrase ‘Galilee of the Gentiles (or nations)’. The place had been raised to city status by the tetrarch Philip, son of Herod the Great, in 4/2 BC, when it was given the name of Julias after the emperor Augustus’s daughter.
And Jesus was said to have spoken of the town in uncomplimentary terms. It may not have reacted favourably to his mission.
Besides, discontent was high among the peasants of rural, agrarian Galileee, who bore an oppressive tax burden (relevant to Jesus’s parables which were largely agricultural in character).
Nevertheless the name ‘Bethsaida’ means ‘house of fishing’, and this was a flourishing activit