<p>10:37 <em>That message you yourselves know, which was published throughout all Judea</em>- Even Gentile soldiers on duty in Palestine knew the basic message of the Lord Jesus, so widespread was the message. If Peter could reason that the content of the Gospel was common knowledge in Palestine, we can hardly imagine the Gospel to be much more than the life and teaching of the historical Jesus. All theological matters could not then have been in view; and the definition and content of the Gospel surely didn't change after the time of Cornelius.</p><p><em>Beginning from Galilee</em><i>, after the baptism which John preached</i>- There is a strong NT emphasis on the Galilean origins of the Lord, His message and the whole Christian movement. Yet Galilee was despised. The point is being laboured that the origins of Christianity were in that which was despised by men. Every Jew would expect a Messianic movement to begin <em>from Jerusalem</em>. But Christianity is presented as having its genesis in despised, half-Gentile Galilee.</p>