| Also known as Pella, the area was one of the cities making up the Decapolis. |
| On the return trip he passed through Decapolis where he healed a deaf and dumb man and performed many other miracles. |
| Again he left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. |
| Scythopolis was the only one of the cities of the Decapolis west of the Jordan. |
| Cities of the Decapolis, however, lay within the limits of Perea, and introduced Greek life and ideas to the people. |
| Seetzen identified it with Gadara, one of the minor towns of the Decapolis. |
