Callirhoe
The hot springs.
Inhabitants or Natives
A person possessed by Beelzebub.
Description
Hot springs on the east shore of the Dead Sea, near Machaerus.
Notable Facts
The apostolic group faces a series of attacks: They encounter a possessed person at Callirhoe "the second of whom you say is dominated by Beelzebub".
Its Name
Callirhoe, Callirhoé, Zereth-shahar; The beautiful spring
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 502
Learn more about this place
It is at these hot springs that Herod the Great, gangrenous and "devoured by worms," comes to try to be healed. In vain. He will die shortly after at Jericho.
Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel Salton Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère:During a pilgrimage to Mount Nebo, in the autumn of the third year, Jesus passed through Callirhoé, where he was very poorly received. Later, when their path crosses that of a possessed person, Jesus says to Peter: “My Peter, and you believe they are not possessed? You believe that to be possessed, one must be like the one from Callirhoe and others whom we have met?”[1]The hot springs of Callirhoé were famous in antiquity. Flavius Josephus reports that Herod the Great came there seeking relief for his many ailments.
Cited in: War of the Jews 1.33.5; Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 17.
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• 31° 35’ 49’’ N / 35° 33’ 34’’ E
• -395m
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