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Mark 6:53

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

They came into the land of Gennesaret; literally ( ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἦλθον εἰς γεννησαρέτ), they came to the land unto Gennesaret. This was the plain on the western side of the sea sometimes called "the lake of Gennesaret."

The name Gennesaret (says Cornelius a Lapide) means "a fertile garden." There was a city originally called "Chinnereth" or "Cinneroth," mentioned in Joshua 19:25, which probably gave one of its names to this lake.

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