Bible atlas

Explore biblical places with context that supports real study.

Move beyond a placeholder map page and into a guided atlas of major biblical settings, from Sinai and Jerusalem to Rome and the Sea of Galilee. Each place links back into passages, people, and the larger storyline of Scripture.

17 locations6 route diagramsPassage linksPeople and place context

Key regions12

Story eras7

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Antioch Babylon Bethlehem Caesarea Maritima Capernaum Corinth Damascus Ephesus Jericho Jerusalem Jordan River Mount Sinai Nazareth Patmos Rome Samaria Sea of Galilee

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Region

Era

Journey

Visible locations17

Journey stopsAll

Atlas visual

Story-world map

Antioch Babylon Bethlehem Caesarea Maritima Capernaum Corinth Damascus Ephesus Jericho Jerusalem Jordan River Mount Sinai Nazareth Patmos Rome Samaria Sea of Galilee

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Syria

Antioch

Church era

Antioch becomes a major church center where believers are first called Christians and from which mission is launched.

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Sending church

paulpeter

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Mesopotamia

Babylon

Exile and prophetic hope

Babylon is both a historical empire and a symbolic biblical image of proud rebellion against God.

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Exile empire

danielezekielisaiah

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Judah

Bethlehem

Judges to gospels

Bethlehem is remembered as David's hometown and the birthplace of Jesus.

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Davidic birthplace

davidruthmary

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Coastal Plain

Caesarea Maritima

Church era

Caesarea is a strategic Roman port city tied to Cornelius, Paul, and the widening reach of the gospel.

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Coastal gateway

peterpaul

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Galilee

Capernaum

Gospels

Capernaum functions as a key ministry base for Jesus around the Sea of Galilee.

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Jesus' ministry base

jesuspeter

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Achaia

Corinth

Church era

Corinth is a strategic but complicated church setting in the New Testament letters.

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Church in tension

paulapollos

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Syria

Damascus

Church era

Damascus is forever linked to Saul's conversion and early proclamation of Jesus.

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Conversion road

paul

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Asia Minor

Ephesus

Church era

Ephesus is a major New Testament ministry center connected with Paul's mission and later church leadership.

Map anchor

Mission hub

paultimothyjohn

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Jordan Valley

Jericho

Conquest to gospels

Jericho appears at Israel's first conquest victory and later as a setting in Jesus' healing and salvation ministry.

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First crossing city

joshuajesus

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Judah

Jerusalem

Kingdom to church era

Jerusalem becomes the royal city of David, the temple city, and a major center in the ministry of Jesus and the early church.

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Temple city

davidisaiahjesus

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Jordan Valley

Jordan River

Conquest to gospels

The Jordan River appears in Israel's entrance into the land and in the baptism ministry surrounding Jesus.

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Threshold waters

joshuaelijahjohn the baptist

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Wilderness

Mount Sinai

Exodus and law

Sinai is the mountain where Israel receives the covenant law after redemption from Egypt.

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Covenant mountain

mosesaaron

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Galilee

Nazareth

Gospels

Nazareth is the hometown setting associated with Jesus' upbringing and early identity in the gospels.

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Hidden hometown

maryjesus

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Aegean

Patmos

Church era

Patmos is the island of John's exile and the setting of the Revelation vision.

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Island of revelation

john

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Italy

Rome

Church era

Rome stands as the capital of imperial power and an important destination in the spread of the gospel.

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Imperial capital

paulpeter

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Central Hill Country

Samaria

Kingdom to church era

Samaria carries the memory of a divided kingdom and becomes a key setting in the widening reach of Jesus' ministry and the early church.

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Crossing old divides

jesuspeter

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Galilee

Sea of Galilee

Gospels

The Sea of Galilee surrounds much of Jesus' public teaching, calling of disciples, and miracle ministry.

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Teaching shoreline

jesuspeterjohn the baptist

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Atlas journeys

Follow connected movements through the biblical story

Exodus and law

The Exodus Route

Trace redemption from deliverance out of Egypt to covenant formation and entry toward the promised land.

Deliverance, covenant, wilderness formation, and the presence of God.

Mount Sinai

Covenant mountain

Jordan River

Threshold waters

Jericho

First crossing city

Mount Sinai Jordan River Jericho

Exodus 12 Exodus 19-20

Kingdom to messianic hope

From Bethlehem to Jerusalem

Follow the rise of Davidic kingship and the way royal hope points beyond itself toward the Messiah.

Kingship, covenant promise, worship, and messianic expectation.

Bethlehem

Davidic birthplace

Jerusalem

Temple city

Bethlehem Jerusalem

1 Samuel 16 2 Samuel 7

Gospels

The Ministry of Jesus

Move through the places most closely tied to the incarnation, baptism, public ministry, and climactic work of Christ.

Incarnation, discipleship, proclamation, miracle, cross, and resurrection.

Bethlehem

Davidic birthplace

Nazareth

Hidden hometown

Jordan River

Threshold waters

Capernaum

Jesus' ministry base

Bethlehem Nazareth Jordan River Capernaum Sea of Galilee Jericho Jerusalem

Luke 1-2 Matthew 3

Church era

Paul's Mission Journey Arc

Track the spread of the gospel through major ministry centers that shaped the New Testament church.

Mission, church planting, endurance, and the gospel reaching the nations.

Jerusalem

Temple city

Caesarea Maritima

Coastal gateway

Antioch

Sending church

Ephesus

Mission hub

Jerusalem Caesarea Maritima Antioch Ephesus Corinth Rome

Acts 13 Acts 18

Exile and prophetic hope

Exile and Restoration Hope

See how judgment, exile, and restoration hope are anchored in specific places across the biblical story.

Judgment, faithfulness in exile, prophetic hope, and restoration.

Jerusalem

Temple city

Babylon

Exile empire

Jerusalem Babylon

2 Kings 25 Psalm 137

Church era

From Jerusalem to the Nations

Follow the widening arc of Acts from Jerusalem through boundary-crossing cities into the Gentile world.

Witness, Spirit-empowered expansion, Gentile inclusion, and gospel momentum.

Jerusalem

Temple city

Samaria

Crossing old divides

Caesarea Maritima

Coastal gateway

Damascus

Conversion road

Jerusalem Samaria Caesarea Maritima Damascus Antioch Rome

Acts 1:8 Acts 8

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