sentences:  The city was governed by a city council of 600 with a committee of 10 until 44 CE when a Roman procurator was set over the city after the death of Herod Agrippa I.
  
  Tiberias is mentioned in as the location from which boats had sailed to the opposite, eastern side of the Sea of Galilee.The crowd seeking Jesus after the miraculous feeding of the 5000 used these boats to travel back to Capernaum on the north-western part of the lake.Under the Roman Empire, the city was known by its Greek name Τιβεριάς ("Tiberiás", Modern Greek Τιβεριάδα "Tiveriáda"), In 61 CE Herod Agrippa II annexed the city to his kingdom whose capital was Caesarea Philippi.