“The time promised by God has come at last!” he announced. “The Kingdom of God is near! Repent of your sins and believe the Good News!”
Parallel translations
- WEB and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
- KJV And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
- BSB “The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!”
- NKJV and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
- NASB and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent and believe in the gospel.”
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Quick answer
Jesus announces that the appointed time has come and God's kingdom is near, calling all to repent and believe the gospel. This is the summary of His message and the proper response to it.
Overview
Jesus declares that the long-awaited moment of God's saving rule has arrived in Him. The right response is twofold: turning from sin (repent) and trusting the good news (believe). This verse defines the gospel call still issued today, summoning sinners to receive God's reign through faith in Christ.
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Theme
- The Kingdom of God"The kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe."
Cross-references · 15
- Matt 3:2“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
- Matt 4:17From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
- Acts 2:36–38“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
- Acts 20:21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
- Eph 1:10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
- Matt 10:7As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
- Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
- Luke 10:9Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
- Dan 2:44In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
- Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
- Luke 10:11‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
- Matt 21:31–32Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
- 2 Tim 2:25–26in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
- Dan 9:25Know therefore and discern, that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
- Rom 16:26—
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