Doco
A village on the road to Gilead.
Inhabitants or natives
Marianne, widow of Levi and mother-in-law of Jerusa the cancer patient, her children Dina, Osia, Anne, Seba, Melchi, David, Jude.
Its inhabitants are rather favorable to Jesus, even though there is not bWatercoup de monde[1].
Description
A small town. They arrive at the small square: a patch of muddy ground with, in the center, a large oak tree that grew there on its own and which perhaps in summer gives a pleasant shade. For now, it is rather sad with its dense and dark foliage above the poor houses to which it takes away the light and the sun.[2]
Notable facts
Jesus heals Jerusa the cancer patient there[3]
Place of the encounter with the rich young man[4]
Its name
Doco, Docus, Aïn Duk, Tell Nimrin. Dagon[5]
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 56 EMV 70 EMV 87
EMV 134
EMV 576 EMV 577
Learn more about this place
Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel Salton Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère
About 15 km north of Jericho east of the Jordan, between the Jordan ford and Ramoth.In the work, this village is both a meeting place and a stopping point for Jesus and his Disciples, and it is mentioned about twenty times. This is all the more remarkable since the village was practically unknown in 1944. Maria Valtorta locates it perfectly, north of Jericho ("Wait for us five miles between Jericho and Docco, at the bend of the river"[6]), and on the road which, from Lydda and Ephraim, leads to Jericho[7]. She gives a detailed description[2] and even provides a very precise detail (See Nueiameh, wadi).
The city, now completely disappeared, is mentioned by Flavius Josephus who calls it Dagon: "A little north of Jericho, going back to the time of the Maccabees, there is a fortress named after the god of the Philistines"[5]. It is in this fortress of Dok that Simon Maccabee was invited to a banquet by his son-in-law Ptolemy, and was massacred there in 135 BC.[8]
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• 31° 52’ N / 35° 26’ E
• -150m