In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.

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

John went throughout the entire Jordan region, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

So news about him spread to every place in the surrounding region.

They landed in the region of the Gerasenes, which is just across the lake from Galilee.

Then all the people from the region surrounding the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were terrified. So he got into a boat and started back.