Magadan

Magadan appears once in Scripture in Matthew's account of Jesus crossing the Sea of Galilee after the feeding of the four thousand: "And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala" (Matthew 15:39; modern critical texts read "Magadan"). The parallel passage in Mark 8:10 places the landing at Dalmanutha. Magadan is widely identified with Magdala — the hometown of Mary Magdalene — on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee just north of Tiberias. Recent excavations at the site have uncovered a first-century synagogue with the famous "Magdala Stone" depicting the seven-branched menorah of the Jerusalem temple.