Mark 8:10

The Leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod

10. the parts of Dalmanutha or as St Matthew says, into the coasts of Magdala(Mark 15:39), or according to some MSS. Magadan. Nothing is known of Dalmanutha. It must clearly have been near to Magdala, which may have been the Greek name of one of the many Migdols(i. e. watch-towers) to be found in the Holy Land, possibly the Migdal-elof Joshua 19:38, and its place may now be occupied by a miserable collection of hovels known as el-Mejdelon the western side of the Lake, and at the S. E. corner of the Plain of Gennesaret. "Just before reaching Mejdel, we crossed a little open valley, the Ain-el-Barideh, with a few rich cornfields and gardens straggling among the ruins of a village, and some large and more ancient foundations by several, copious fountains, and probably identical with the Dalmanutha of the New Testament." Tristram's Land of Israel, p. 425. If the reading Magadanin Matthew 15:39 stands, we may conjecture either (a) that it and Dalmanutha were different names for the same place, or (b) that they denoted contiguous spots, either of which might give its name to the same region.