And in that region there were shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

but Elijah was sent to none of them except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

And the report about him went out into every place in the surrounding region.

Then all the people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.