When they persecute you in one town, run away to another one. I assure you that you will not finish your work in all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

When Jesus heard about the plot against him, he went away from that place; and large crowds followed him. He healed all the sick

At that time Jesus went up a hill to pray and spent the whole night there praying to God.

Once more they tried to seize Jesus, but he slipped out of their hands.

Many people came to him. "John performed no miracles," they said, "but everything he said about this man was true."

From that day on the Jewish authorities made plans to kill Jesus.

So Jesus did not travel openly in Judea, but left and went to a place near the desert, to a town named Ephraim, where he stayed with the disciples.

Then some Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, decided to mistreat the apostles and stone them.

When the apostles learned about it, they fled to the cities of Lystra and Derbe in Lycaonia and to the surrounding territory.

As soon as night came, the believers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived, they went to the synagogue.

At once the believers sent Paul away to the coast; but both Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.

Large crowds followed him from Galilee and the Ten Towns, from Jerusalem, Judea, and the land on the other side of the Jordan.

When Jesus had come down from the hill with the apostles, he stood on a level place with a large number of his disciples. A large crowd of people was there from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from the coast cities of Tyre and Sidon;

So he traveled all over Galilee, preaching in the synagogues and driving out demons.

So, on the west side of the Jordan they set aside Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali; Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim; and Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.

From the territory of Naphtali they received three cities: Kedesh in Galilee, with its pasture lands (one of the cities of refuge), Hammoth Dor, and Kartan, with their pasture lands.

But they insisted even more strongly, "With his teaching he is starting a riot among the people all through Judea. He began in Galilee and now has come here."

Others said, "He is the Messiah!" But others said, "The Messiah will not come from Galilee!

"Well," they answered, "are you also from Galilee? Study the Scriptures and you will learn that no prophet ever comes from Galilee."