The Synoptic Gospels skip from the temptation of Jesus to the Galilean ministry, a whole year. John supplies items to help fill in the picture. Christ's work in Galilee began after the close of the active ministry of the Baptist who lingered on in prison for a year or more. Jesus was in a large town, one of the centres of Galilean political and commercial life, a fishing mart, where many Gentiles came. Here the message of the kingdom would have a better chance than in Jerusalem with its ecclesiastical prejudices or in Nazareth with its local jealousies.
Death is personified.
He had been preaching for over a year already elsewhere. Both proclaimed the good news of the kingdom. He was both herald and teacher as every preacher should be. Andrew and Simon were fishers by trade. These two brothers, James and John, were getting their nets ready for use.