Establishment of Churches - Churches established by A.D. 35 – Part 4

Church History: Lydda– Established during Philips Second Journey; Acts 8:26 – 40
This town was situated on the road from Jerusalem to Caesarea Philippi. It was about fifteen miles east of Joppa, and belonged to the tribe of Ephraim. It was called by the Greeks Diospolis, or city of Jupiter, probably because a temple was at some period erected to Jupiter in that city. It is now so entirely ruined as to be a miserable village. Since the crusades, it has been called by the Christians St. George, on account of its having been the scene of the martyrdom of a saint of that name. Tradition says, that in this city the emperor Justinian erected a church.2

Samaria – Established during Philips First Journey; Acts 8:5 – 13
One of the three divisions of the Holy Land in the time of our Savior, having Galilee on the north and Judea on the south, the Jordan on the east and the Mediterranean on the west, and occupying parts of the territory assigned at first to Ephraim, Mahasseh, and Issachar, Luke 17:11; John 4:4. It is described as having its hills less bare than those of Judea, and its valleys and plains more cultivated and fruitful.