'Country' in the Bible

And all the country of Judea and all the people of Jerusalem were continually going out to him; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

He replied, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so I may preach there also; that is why I came [from the Father].”

The herdsmen [tending the pigs] ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see what had happened.

Jesus left there and came to His hometown [Nazareth]; and His disciples followed Him.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor (respect) except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”

send the crowds away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

And wherever He came into villages, or cities, or the countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places and pleading with Him [to allow them] just to touch the fringe (tassel with a blue cord) of His robe; and all who touched it were healed.

Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; and he rented it out to tenant farmers and left the country.

They forced into service a passer-by coming in from the countryside, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to carry His cross.

After that, He appeared in a different form to two of them as they were walking along the way to the country.