Perea (sources)
Survey of ancient sources on Perea.
Overview
Early Jewish sources
Josephus, Jewish War
War 1.586; 2.57-59, 94-95, 168, 566-568.
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities
Ant 13.50; 15.294; 17.188, 276, 318; 18.240; 20.2-3.
Early Christian sources
Gospel of Mark
Mark 3:7-8 -- 7 Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him; 8 hearing all that he was doing, they came to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan [i.e. Perea], and the region around Tyre and Sidon.
Mark 10:1 -- He left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan [i.e. Perea]. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them.
Gospel of Matthew
Matthew 4:15 -- “ The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
Matthew 4:25 -- And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
Matthew 19:1 -- Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
Gospel of John
John 1:28 -- This took place in Bethany across the Jordan [i.e. Perea] where John was baptizing
John 3:26 -- They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan [i.e. Perea], to whom you testified, here he is baptizing, and all are going to him."
John 10:40 -- He [i.e. Jesus] went away again across the Jordan [i.e. Perea] to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there.