Cesarea

Cesarea is an alternate spelling of Caesarea, which in the New Testament refers primarily to Caesarea Maritima — the great port city on the Mediterranean coast of Palestine built by Herod the Great and named in honor of Caesar Augustus. It served as the administrative capital of the Roman province of Judaea and appears frequently in Acts: as the home of Cornelius the centurion (Acts 10), the base of Philip the evangelist (Acts 8:40; 21:8), and the site of Paul's imprisonments and trials before Felix, Festus, and Agrippa (Acts 23–26) before his voyage to Rome. A second city, Caesarea Philippi, lay at the headwaters of the Jordan and is the site where Peter's great confession was made (Matt. 16:13–16).