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Mount Hermon: Caesarea Philippi - Banias Spring

Mount Hermon: 

Caesarea Philippi -
Banias Spring


‎The crystal-clear waters of the Banias spring, which feeds the River Hermon, one of the three tributaries of the River Jordan. The origin of the name is Paneas or Panias—city of Pan, the god of springs, flocks and herds in ancient Greece, whose rites flourished here in the first century A.D. When the Arabs arrived its name was changed to Banias. Panias was given to King Herod by his patron, the Roman Emperor Augustus. Herod’s son and heir, Philip, made it his capital and called it Caesarea Philippi. Matthew (Mt. 16:13) mentions it as the northernmost town which Jesus visited with his disciples, and during the visit there he entrusted Simon Peter with the keys of the kingdom of heaven.


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