And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
Ver. 11. He passed through Samaria and Galilee] Albeit he had forbidden his apostles to pass into those parts till after his death; yet he manifested by many arguments that the gospel belonged, and should shortly be preached, to those poor pagans, that as yet sat in darkness and in the shadow of death.