As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’
Parallel translations
- WEB As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
- KJV And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
- NKJV And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
- NASB And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’
- NLT Go and announce to them that the Kingdom of Heaven is near.
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Quick answer
The disciples are to preach that the kingdom of heaven is near. Their core message announces the arrival of God's reign in Christ.
Overview
Jesus gives the apostles the same proclamation he and John the Baptist made, that God's kingdom has drawn near. The nearness of the kingdom is bound up with the presence of the King himself. This message calls hearers to repent and believe, for God's saving reign has arrived in Jesus.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Acts 28:31Boldly and freely he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Matt 3:2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
- Luke 9:60But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
- Matt 4:17From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
- Luke 16:16The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
- Luke 10:9–11Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you.’
- Luke 9:2And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
- Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Luke 9:6So they set out and went from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere.
- Mark 6:12So they set out and preached that the people should repent.
- Matt 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
- Matt 21:43Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
- Matt 11:1After Jesus had finished instructing His twelve disciples, He went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.
- Acts 4:2greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
- Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- Matt 11:11–12Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
- Acts 10:25As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to worship him.
- John 3:2He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
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