Where do we have to start once the death, burial, and resurrection is revealed to us Gentiles as God's plan of salvation?
Once the death, burial, and resurrection is revealed to us Gentiles as God's plan of salvation, we have to start there. It is not a return to John the Baptist or Christ's earthly ministry, but His death, burial, and resurrection, where things kick in gear for Gentiles.
Les explains that in verse 16 “henceforth” means from that point on. The starting point is not John the Baptist or Christ’s earthly ministry; it is His death, burial, and resurrection. Les notes that all the way through the Old Testament God was dealing with His covenant people under the Law, and the prophets wrote under the Law. But once the death, burial, and resurrection has been revealed to us Gentiles as God’s plan of salvation, that is where we have to start. He illustrates this by turning to John’s Gospel, chapter 12, where certain Greeks, Gentiles, came to worship.