Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 4:12

12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into Prison, he departed into Galilee.

Iohn was some time after this cast into Prison, for his free reproving Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Galilee, for taking Herodias his Brother Phillips Wife, and other Evils, Chap. 14.3.4. Mar. 6.17. Luk. 3.19, 20. Iesus heard of this accident, and departed into Galilee. There were many things happened betwixt Christ's Temptations, and this his Motion into Gali[illegible: 1 letter]ee, which are omitted by all the Evangelists except Iohn ▪ and by him recorded in his four first Chapters. Neither by Galilee, we must understand the nether Galilee, which was within the Iurisdiction of Herod, but the upper Galilee called Galilee of the Gentiles, v. 15. in the Borders of Zebulon, and Nepthali, which was in the Iurisdiction of Phillip, a man of a less bloody Disposition. Others make it under Herods Iurisdiction, but where the Pharises had less to do than in Iudea. Our Saviour doth not out of Cowardiss avoid Danger, but he knew his time was not yet come. But some judicious Interpreters think that our Saviour first went into the lower Galilee, and from thence soon after into the upper Galilee, that which makes this more probable is the next words: And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, so as it should seem he first went to Nazareth, which was in the lower Galilee.

Marginal references: Mar. 1.14. Luk. 3.20.; Luk. 4.14.31. Joh. 4.43.; delivered up.