Perea

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Region. The territory beyond the Jordan (Gk. `peran', beyond), with Galilee forming Tetrarchy of Herod Antipas. In N.T. called `beyond the Jordan' (`peran tou Iordanou'):

Mark 3:7-9 "But Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea  and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how many things He was doing, came to Him."