Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 13:49

"And the word of the Lord was spread abroad throughout all the region." — Acts 13:49 (ASV)

Throughout all the region.—This clearly involves a considerable period of active working. It was not in Antioch only, but in the “region” around, the border district of the three provinces of Phrygia, Lycaonia, and Galatia, that the new faith was planted. Each town and village in that region presented the spectacle of at least a few men and women who no longer sacrificed to their country’s gods, who were no longer content even to worship in the synagogue of the relligio licita of the Jews, but met in small groups here and there, as the disciples of a new Master.