Caesara Philippi
 
 A city on the northeast of the marshy plain of el-Huleh, 120 miles
 north of Jerusalem, and 20 miles north of the Sea of Galilee, at the
 "upper source" of the Jordan, and near the base of Mount Hermon. It
 is mentioned in Mt 16:13 Mr 8:27 as the northern limit of our Lord's 
 public ministry. According to some its original name was Baal-Gad
 Jos 11:17 or Baal-Hermon Jud 3:3 1Ch 5:23 when it was a Canaanite
 sanctuary of Baal. It was afterwards called Panium or Paneas, from a
 deep cavern full of water near the town.  This name was given to the 
 cavern by the Greeks of the Macedonian kingdom of Antioch because of 
 its likeness to the grottos of Greece, which were always associated 
 with the worship of their god Pan. Its modern name is Banias. Here 
 Herod built a temple, which he dedicated to Augustus Caesar. This town 
 was afterwards enlarged and embellished by Herod Philip, the tetrarch 
 of Trachonitis, of whose territory it formed a part, and was called by 
 him Caesarea Philippi, partly after his own name, and partly after that 
 of the emperor Tiberius Caesar.  It is thus distinguished from the 
 Caesarea of Palestine.
 
  See JORDAN 25112