John having before proclaimed the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel, before His coming.
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God:
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest, for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
beginning from the baptism of John to that same day that He was taken up from us, to become a witness with us of His resurrection.
that word which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed;