Acts 13:49

διεφέρετο; divulgabatur, “was spread abroad,” R.V.; not only by the preaching of the Apostles themselves, but by small knots of Christians in other towns, see Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 105, and so Blass, in loco; only here in N.T. in this sense, so in (Wis 18:10) Plut.; Lucian; imperfect, a certain lapse of time is implied, see Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 105. ὅλης τῆς χώρας : the phrase, “the whole Region,” indicates that Antioch was the centre of a Region, a notice which introduces us to an important fact of Roman imperial administration. Antioch, as a Roman colony, would be the natural military and administrative centre of a certain Regio, and there is evidence that in Southern Galatia there were also other distinct Regiones, χῶραι, Ramsay, St. Paul, pp. 102 104, 109, 110 112.