And the gospel must first be preached 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.
- BSB And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.
- NKJV 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Matt 24:14This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
- Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
- Mark 16:15He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
- Rev 14:6I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
- Rom 10:18But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
- Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
- Matt 28:18–19Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
- Rom 1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
- Rom 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News 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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