is mentioned only in the first two Gospels, (Matthew 16:13; Mark 8:27) and in accounts of the same transactions. It was at the easternmost and most important of the two recognized sources of the Jordan, the other being at Tel-el-Kadi . The spring rises from and the city was built on a limestone terrace in a valley at the base of Mount Hermon 20 miles north of the Sea of Galilee. It was enlarged by Herod Philip, and named after Caesar, with his own name added to distinguish it from Caesarea. Its present name is Banias , a village of some 50 houses, with many interesting ruins. Caesarea Philippi has no Old Testament history, though it has been not unreasonably identified with Baal-gad . It was visited by Christ shortly before his transfiguration, (Matthew 16:13-28) and was the northern limit of his journeys. (Mark 8:27)
Caesarea Philippi
Near Caesarea Philippi, a town in the north, Jesus put a question to his friends. “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?” he asked as they walked. They told him what people were saying, and then he asked it again, closer to home: “But whom say ye that I am?” Peter answers, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Matthew, Mark and Luke all remember this turning point, though Luke does not name the place. Matthew 16:13 gives the fullest telling of it.
3 verses
Matthew
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
Mark
And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
Luke
And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884