a town in Galilee, on the western side of the sea of Tiberias, not far from Capernaum. It was the native place of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, and the frequent residence of Jesus; the precise site, however, is utterly unknown, and the very name has long eluded the search of travellers, though Pococke and others have attempted to identify it with different places.

On the north-eastern border of the sea of Tiberias was another Bethsaida, near which Christ fed the five thousand, and probably also the one where the blind man was restored to sight. This and not the western was the Bethsaida of Gaulonitis, which was rebuilt and enlarged by Philip the Tetrarch, and received the name of Julias, in honour of Julia the daughter of Augustus.