The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
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Thomas Aquinas
AD 1274
that Jesus began to do and to teach: Consequently, immediately after His baptism Christ adopted a strict form of life, in order to teach us the need of taming the flesh before passing on to the office of preaching.