4:1-3 Jesus applied himself more to preaching, which was the more excellent, 1Co 1:17, than to baptism. He would put honour upon his disciples, by employing them to baptize. He teaches us that the benefit of sacraments depends not on the hand that administers them.

3. left Judea—to avoid persecution, which at that early stage would have marred His work.

departed into Galilee—by which time John had been cast into prison (Mr 1:14).