And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Parallel translations
- WEB They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
- BSB And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.
- NKJV And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
- NASB And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.]] [[And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself also sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.]]
- NLT And the disciples went everywhere and preached, and the Lord worked through them, confirming what they said by many miraculous signs.
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Quick answer
The disciples go out and preach everywhere while the Lord works with them, confirming the word by signs. The risen Christ empowers the church's mission.
Overview
Mark's Gospel closes with the obedient disciples spreading the gospel as the ascended Lord works through them. Though seated in heaven, Christ remains active with his church, confirming the message by accompanying signs. The story that began with the Son of God now opens outward into the ongoing mission of his people to the world.
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Cross-references · 11
- 1 Cor 2:4–5And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
- Acts 14:3Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
- Rom 15:19Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
- Acts 8:4–6Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.
- Heb 2:4God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
- Acts 5:12And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
- Acts 2:1–28And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- 1 Cor 3:6–9I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
- Acts 4:30By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
- 2 Cor 6:1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
- Acts 14:8–10And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
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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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