in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,
He went and preached ...  Commentators with a theory to uphold make a big thing out of the went," encountering innumerable difficulties when they suppose that he went "while dead and buried"!  As a matter of fact, "he went and preached" is just a Biblical way of saying he preached.  "Such expressions (he went) are often redundant in Greek."[31] Herodotus often used such expressions as "he spoke, saying," or "he speaking, said," and we have the same kind of an expression in "he went and preached."  "No particular stress should be laid on the clause he went."[32] Speaking of the preaching of the apostles themselves, Paul said that Christ "came and preached peace to you that were afar off"  (Ephesians 2:17); but Christ preached to the Ephesians through human instruments, nevertheless it is said that he "came and preached" to them.  Therefore, "If Christ is said by Paul to go and do, what he did by his apostles, Christ may with equal propriety be said by Peter to go and do what he did by Noah."[33]