Return of Jesus to Galilee
The Return of Jesus to Galilee is an episode in the life of Jesus which appears in three of the Canonical Gospels: Matthew 4:12, Mark 1:14 and John 4:1–3, 4:43–45. It relates the return of Jesus to Galilee upon the imprisonment of John the Baptist.[1]
For the return after the flight into Egypt, see Return of the family of Jesus to Nazareth.Gospel of Mark[edit]
In Mark's Gospel, Jesus returns to Galilee from the desert after John's arrest, following a period of solitude and temptation.
Gospel of Matthew[edit]
In Matthew's Gospel, the narrative suggests that after his baptism he had spent time in the desert, the "holy city" (Jerusalem) and a mountainous area before returning to Galilee. He left Nazareth, where he had grown up, and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the Sea of Galilee[3] "in the heart of the world, in a busy town, and near others, on the shore of a sea that was full of fish, and on a great international highway".[4]