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And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and [from] Decapolis, and [from] Jerusalem, and [from] Judaea, and [from] beyond Jordan.
Note 1 at Mt 4:25: The Decapolis ("ten cities") was a district so named because of the ten dominant cities in the area and was mostly located on the east side of the Jordan River from Damascus to near the Dead Sea. The ten cities originally included Beth-Shean (Scythopolis), Hippos, Damascus, Gadara, Raphana, Canatha, Pella, Dion, Gerasa, and Philadelphia (Pliny, His. nat. v. 16). Other towns were later included.
