12Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;
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Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)We have here an account of Christ’s preaching in the synagogues of Galilee, for he came into the world to be a Preacher; the great salvation which he wrought out, he himself began to publish (Heb. 2:3) to show how much his heart was upon it, and ours should be. Several passages in the other gospels, especially in that of St. John, are supposed, in the order of the story of Christ’s life, to interv…
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