Matthew 10:7

The disciples are to preach that the kingdom of heaven is near. Their core message announces the arrival of God's reign in Christ.

Cross-references · 18

• Acts 28:31preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.
• Matt 3:2“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
• Luke 9:60But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
• Matt 4:17From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
• Luke 16:16The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
• Luke 10:9–11Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
• Luke 9:2He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Luke 9:6They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News, and healing everywhere.
• Mark 6:12They went out and preached that people should repent.
• Matt 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
• Matt 21:43“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.
• Matt 11:1When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
• Acts 4:2being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Matt 11:11–12Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
• Acts 10:25When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.
• John 3:2The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

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