Acts 10:37

Word. Greek rhema, which stresses the utterance, or preaching, of the word rather than the “word” (logos) itself, as in verse 36. There, it is the whole message of salvation through Christ. Here, more specifically, it is the tidings about Jesus that had been spread abroad after the preaching of John the Baptist. Apparently Cornelius and his friends knew of these tidings, perhaps through the teaching that already had extended as far as Caesarea. The content of this teaching was that though Jesus had lived as a man in Nazareth, He was God’s anointed, the Messiah, and was shown to be so by the mighty works that He did. This indicates that the story of Christ was widely known — that the tidings concerning Him had been vigorously and effectively given by the apostles and lay members.

Began from Galilee. After Jesus was baptized in the Jordan, He began His preaching in Galilee.