{Was spread abroad} (diephereto). Imperfect passive of
diapher(935c), to carry in different directions (dia). By the
recent converts as well as by Paul and Barnabas. This would seem
to indicate a stay of some months with active work among the
Gentiles that bore rich fruit. {Throughout all the region} (di'
hol(8873) t(8873) ch(9372)as). Antioch in Pisidia as a Roman colony would be
the natural centre of a Roman _Regio_, an important element in
Roman imperial administration. There were probably other
_Regiones_ in South Galatia (Ramsay, _St. Paul the Traveller and
Roman Citizen_, pp. 102-12).