Lexicon :: Strong's G5561 - chōra

And being warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another route.

The people who live in darkness

have seen a great light,

and for those living in the land of the shadow of death,

a light has dawned.[fn]

When he had come to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes,[fn] two demon-possessed men met him as they came out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.

The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

They came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes.[fn]

And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the region.

In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch[fn] of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Then they sailed to the region of the Gerasenes,[fn] which is opposite Galilee.

Then he told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive.

“Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.

Therefore he said, “A nobleman traveled to a far country to receive for himself authority to be king[fn] and then to return.

“Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those inside the city must leave it, and those who are in the country must not enter it,

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open[fn] your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready[fn] for harvest.

Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with the disciples.

Saul agreed with putting him to death.

On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

“We ourselves are witnesses of everything he did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, and yet they killed him by hanging him on a tree.

Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. Together they presented themselves before him. After winning over Blastus, who was in charge of the king’s bedroom, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king’s country.

The word of the Lord spread through the whole region.

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia; they had been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

After spending some time there, he set out, traveling through one place after another in the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

“Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and about midnight the sailors thought they were approaching land.

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.