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This 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.
Matthew 24:14 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
  • BSB And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
  • NKJV And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
  • NASB This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
  • NLT And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come.

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Quick answer

The good news of the kingdom will be preached to all nations, and then the end will come. It declares the worldwide spread of the gospel before the final end.

Overview

Before the consummation, the gospel will be proclaimed throughout the world as a testimony to all nations. This gives the church its mission and a hopeful purpose amid tribulation. It assures believers that history is moving toward God's appointed goal, the gathering of people from every nation through the message of Christ's kingdom.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • 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.”
  • Rom 16:25–26
  • Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • Mark 16:15–16He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
  • 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.
  • Matt 9:35Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
  • Matt 10:7As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
  • Matt 24:6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
  • Matt 4:23Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
  • Rom 15:18–21For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
  • 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;
  • Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
  • Acts 17:6When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
  • Ezek 7:10“‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.
  • Ezek 7:5–7“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘An evil! A unique evil! Behold, it comes.
  • Acts 20:25“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.
  • Rev 16:14for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
  • Matt 24:3As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”
  • Luke 4:5The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
  • Acts 1:2until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
  • Matt 18:19Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.
  • Acts 11:28One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
  • Luke 2:1Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

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Christ at the center

Matthew presents Jesus as the promised King — son of David, son of Abraham — the new Moses and true Israel in whom every prophecy reaches 'that it might be fulfilled.'

How Matthew 24:14 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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