καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ καθεξῆς. See note on Luke 7:11. The expression marks a new phase, a new departure, in Christ’s mode of action. Hitherto He had made Capernaum His head-quarters; regarded it as “His own city,” and not gone to any great distance from it. At this period—the exact beginning of which is only vaguely marked—He began a wider range of wandering and of missions.

εὐαγγελιζόμενος. The Baptist had preached ‘repentance’ as the preparation for the Kingdom: our Lord preached of the Kingdom itself, and this was “glad tidings,” because the Kingdom of God is “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost,” Romans 14:17.

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