he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.
      I. That he made disciples; he prevailed with many to embrace his doctrine, and to follow him as a teacher come from God. His ministry was successful, notwithstanding the opposition it met with (Psalms 110:2; Psalms 110:3); mathetas poiei--it signifies the same with matheteuo--to disciples. Compare Genesis 12:5. The souls which they had gotten, which they had made (so the word is), which they had made proselytes. Note, It is Christ's prerogative to make disciples, first to bring them to his foot, and then to form and fashion them to his will. Fit, non nascitur, Christianus--The Christian is made such, not born such. Tertullian.