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To what city did John belong, and where was it located?
John: “Bethsaida of Galilee” ([xii, 21]).
John states that Peter was a resident of Bethsaida ([i, 44]), and as John and Peter were partners ([Luke v, 10]), they must have belonged to the same city. But Bethsaida was not in Galilee, but in Gaulonitis. Hence if John wrote the Gospel ascribed to him, he did not know the location of his own city.
It is remarkable with what ease theologians harmonize the most discordant statements. In this case the only thing required was, in drawing the map of Palestine, to make two dots instead of one and write the word Bethsaida twice.