Immediately after His baptism, our Lord began to prepare for His public life by a fast of forty days in the mountainous desert which stretches between Jericho and the mountains of Judea.

Faith in Christ, dead and risen again, is the subject of the Gospel. We read how Christ foretold His Passion and His victory and how He restored the sight of a blind man, and told him: "Thy faith hath saved thee."

Seated on the side of a boat, our Lord preached on the shore of the Lake of Galilee, and the seed which He scattered fell into hearts more or less favorably disposed to receive it. 

Throughout this time after Epiphany, the Church does not cease to manifest our Lord's divinity and therefore His Kingship over men.