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“WOE TO YOU, BETHSAIDA.” In recent years, scholars have been debating the social-historical conditions that caused the Jesus movement to emerge in Galilee. Rather than a region of peasants stricken by poverty, as some have suggested, Freyne argues that many villages of Galilee—especially those situated near the fertile Plain of Ginnosaur—prospered in the first century.