When the Baptist was imprisoned by Herod and his trumpet voice no longer rang over the wastes calling to penance, then Christ began His Galilean ministry. “And after that John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God.”1 He began His testimony to His mission and His own personality; but for reasons of sacred prudence He spoke more clearly at first of the Kingdom than of the King, who was Himself. In our thoughtlessness we might be tempted to ask why Christ
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