Textual: This is an interesting sentence. It reverses the chronological order of the events. It is used as a capping statement on the information that went before. With such an inverted time order, we might suspect that something like a chiasm was dictating this reversed order, but the earlier sentences to not lend themselves to setting this sentence up as the second half of a chiasm. Nevertheless, we may suppose that this is a sentence given for a stylistic purpose. The current preaching of the word is the important message, and is given first. The chronological events that led to this current situation are subordinated by coming next, and since the order places the current first, the logic suggests that the events proceed from newest to oldest.