“Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,”
After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God — the arrest of John is the occasion for Jesus' public ministry to begin. The torch passes from the forerunner to the one foretold. Mark does not describe John's imprisonment yet (that comes in chapter 6), but the note serves a structural purpose: John's ministry ends as Jesus' begins, and the ending is violent, foreshadowing Jesus' own ending. The good news of God is the message Jesus proclaims: this is God's good news, not a human announcement. The Galilean setting fulfills Isaiah 9:1 (Galilee of the Gentiles), the northern region dismissed by Jerusalem's religious elite, as the place where the kingdom is announced.
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