“Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,”
Mark 1:14 — Greek Interlinear
Church Fathers on Mark 1:14
And to shew us that in persecutions we ought to retire, and not to await them; but when we fall into them, we must sustain them.
John being put in prison, fitly does the Lord begin to preach: wherefore there follows, 'Preaching the Gospel, &c.' For when the Law ceases, the Gospel arises in its steps.
When the shadow ceases, the truth comes on; first, John in prison, the Law in Judaea; then, Jesus in Galilee, Paul among the Gentiles preaching the Gospel of the kingdom. For to an earthly kingdom succeeds poverty, to the poverty of Christians is given an everlasting kingdom; but earthly honour is like the foam of water, or smoke, or sleep.