And there they preached the Good News.
Parallel translations
- WEB There they preached the Good News.
- KJV And there they preached the gospel.
- BSB where they continued to preach the gospel.
- NKJV And they were preaching the gospel there.
- NASB and there they continued to preach the gospel.
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Quick answer
In these new cities they kept preaching the Good News. Persecution did not silence them but relocated their witness.
Overview
This brief summary statement shows the missionaries' single-minded purpose: wherever they went, they proclaimed the gospel. Luke repeatedly punctuates Acts with such notes of unstoppable gospel advance. The Good News is the announcement that God saves sinners through the crucified and risen Jesus.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Acts 14:21When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
- 1 Th 2:2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
- Acts 16:10When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.
- Acts 14:15“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
- 2 Tim 4:2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
- Acts 11:19They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
- Acts 8:4Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
- Acts 17:2Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
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Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.
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