ANTIPATRIS

ANTIPATRIS

City between Jerusalem and Caesarea, built by Herod the Great on the site of ancient Aphek (Joshua 12:18). Herod named her Antipatris in honor of his father.

Paul stopped there when he was being taken prisoner to Caesarea (Acts 23:31). In the 4th century AD it was already in ruins. The man survives in the present-day Nar-abufutrus village, north of the present-day city of Jafa.

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