Before his coming John had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
And you, child, will be called the 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 when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”
the word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: