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They went out and preached that people should repent.
Mark 6:12 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
  • BSB So they set out and preached that the people should repent.
  • NKJV So they went out and preached that people should repent.
  • NASB And they went out and preached that people are to repent.
  • NLT So the disciples went out, telling everyone they met to repent of their sins and turn to God.

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The disciples go out and preach that people should repent.

Overview

Obeying Jesus, the twelve proclaim the same message of repentance that he and John the Baptist preached. Their preaching calls people to turn from sin in light of the coming kingdom. This faithful proclamation marks the heart of the church's continuing mission in Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Matt 4:17From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
  • Acts 20:21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
  • Luke 13:3I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
  • Acts 2:38Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Ezek 18:30“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
  • Luke 11:32The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
  • Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • Matt 3:2“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
  • Matt 3:8Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
  • Acts 11:18When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
  • Luke 15:10Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
  • Luke 13:5I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
  • Mark 1:15and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
  • Acts 26:20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
  • Matt 11:20Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.
  • Acts 3:19“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
  • Luke 15:7I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
  • Matt 9:13But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
  • 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,
  • Mark 1:3the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’”
  • Luke 9:6They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News, and healing everywhere.
  • 2 Cor 7:9–10I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

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Christ at the center

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.'

How Mark 6:12 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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