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And: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as And introduces what happened next as a result of the events of the previous verses. Some English versions leave this connection implied. In some languages it may be natural to indicate the connection in some way. Use a natural way in your language to express a concluding event that is the result of previous actions in the story.

the news about Jesus spread quickly through the whole region of Galilee: This sentence indicates that people kept telling others about what Jesus had done. Before long, people throughout the region or province of Galilee had heard about it. It did not take long for this to happen.

Here are some other ways to translate this sentence:

People spread the news about what Jesus had done, and soon people all over Galilee had heard about it.
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The people who were there told others what had happened. Within a short time people in every part of Galilee learned about it.

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