And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.
Parallel translations
- WEB The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.
- KJV And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
- NKJV And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.
- NASB And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.
- NLT For the Good News must first be preached to all nations.
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Quick answer
Before the end, the gospel must first be preached to all nations. God's saving mission drives history forward.
Overview
Amid persecution, Jesus declares the unstoppable global spread of the good news. The mission to all peoples (Mark 16:15; Matthew 28:19) is God's appointed purpose for this age. Persecution itself scatters the message rather than silencing it, and the church's task until Christ returns is to proclaim the gospel to every nation.
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Cross-references · 9
- Matt 24:14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- Col 1:23if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
- Mark 16:15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
- Rev 14:6Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.
- Rom 10:18But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
- Col 1:6that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.
- Matt 28:18–19Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- Rom 1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.
- Rom 15:19by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
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Mark drives urgently to the cross, showing Jesus the Son of God as the suffering Servant who 'came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.'
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