Mark 1:14

put in prison The causes of the imprisonment of the Baptist are more fully related by the Evangelist ch. Mark 6:17-20.

came into Galilee and commenced the great Galilean ministry. Galilee was the most northern and the most populous of the three provinces, into which the Romans had divided Palestine. It was to Roman Palestine what the manufacturing districts are to England, covered with busy towns and teeming villages, Roman custom-houses and thriving fisheries. See Stanley's Sinai and Palestine, pp. 375 377.

the gospel of the kingdom of God or according to some MSS. the Gospel of God.