Perea (sources)

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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.