'Country' in the Bible

And being divinely instructed in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the country round the Jordan,

the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in the country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up.

And there met him, when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, two possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding dangerous, so that no one was able to pass by that way.

And having come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Whence has this man this wisdom and these works of power?

And they were offended in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honour, unless in his country and in his house.

And when the men of that place recognised him, they sent to that whole country around, and they brought to him all that were ill,

Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

For it is as if a man going away out of a country called his own bondmen and delivered to them his substance.

And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his particular ability, and immediately went away out of the country.

And he says to them, Let us go elsewhere into the neighbouring country towns, that I may preach there also, for for this purpose am I come forth.

And they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes.

And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

And those that were feeding them fled and reported it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that had taken place.

And he went out thence and came to his own country, and his disciples follow him.

But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not despised save in his own country, and among his kinsmen, and in his own house.

send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.

they ran through that whole country around, and began to carry about those that were ill on couches, where they heard that he was.

And wherever he entered into villages, or cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might touch if it were only the hem of his garment; and as many as touched him were healed.

And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

it is as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

And after these things he was manifested in another form to two of them as they walked, going into the country;

And Mary, rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah,

And there were shepherds in that country abiding without, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

and having seen it they made known about the country the thing which had been said to them concerning this child.

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee; and a rumour went out into the whole surrounding country about him;

And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.

And he said, Verily I say to you, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

And a rumour went out into every place of the country round concerning him.

And this report went out in all Judaea concerning him, and in all the surrounding country.

And it came to pass afterwards that he went through the country city by city, and village by village, preaching and announcing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with him,

And they arrived in the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.

But they that fed them, seeing what had happened, fled, and told it to the city and to the country.

And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were possessed with great fear; and he, entering into the ship, returned.

And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.

And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

He said therefore, A certain high-born man went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.

And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time.

Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of it depart out, and those who are in the country not enter into it;

for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.

But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

We also are witnesses of all things which he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also slew, having hanged him on a cross.

They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through the country to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.

And he was in bitter hostility with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and, having gained Blastus the king's chamberlain, sought peace, because their country was nourished by the king's.

And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole country.

they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,

And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,

And having stayed there some time, he went forth, passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples.

Now in the country surrounding that place were the lands belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius, who received us and gave us hospitality three days in a very friendly way.

By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise as a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;

For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.