John heralded his coming by proclaiming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel;
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ [the Son of God]. The Preaching of John the Baptist.
And you, child, will be called prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us, become with us a witness to his resurrection.”
what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached,