Then Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the region about the Jordan, were coming out to him,

Rising up thence He comes into the coasts of Judea, through the region beyond the Jordan; and the multitudes again come to Him, and, as was His custom, He again taught them.

And he came into all the region round about the Jordan preaching the baptism of repentance unto the remissions of sins,

and thence into Philippi, which is the first city of the Macedonian region, a colony. And we were in that city spending some days.

But I sent the brethren, in order that our boasting which is in your behalf may not be in vain in this region; in order that, as I was saying, your were ready: