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And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Matthew 4:23 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Jesus 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.
  • KJV And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
  • BSB Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
  • NASB Jesus was going about in all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
  • NLT Jesus traveled throughout the region of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness.

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Quick answer

Jesus travels through Galilee teaching, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease. It summarizes the scope and power of His ministry.

Overview

This verse gives a sweeping summary of Jesus' threefold work: teaching, proclaiming the kingdom, and healing. His miracles authenticate His message and display the kingdom's restoring power over the ruin of sin. The healings are signs that in Christ God is reversing the curse and bringing wholeness.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 40

  • 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.
  • Mark 1:39He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.
  • Luke 7:22Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
  • Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
  • Matt 11:5the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
  • Luke 4:15–18He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
  • Ps 103:3who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
  • Matt 24:14This 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.
  • Matt 13:54Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?
  • Mark 1:21They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.
  • Matt 8:16–17When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
  • Matt 12:9He departed there, and went into their synagogue.
  • Luke 8:1Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,
  • Matt 15:30–31Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,
  • Mark 6:6He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.
  • Rom 10:15And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
  • Acts 5:15–16They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.
  • Mark 6:2When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?
  • Luke 5:17On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
  • Luke 9:11But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing.
  • Mark 1:32–34At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.
  • Luke 4:43–44But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”
  • Luke 13:10He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
  • John 18:20Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
  • Mark 3:10For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.
  • Mark 1:14Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,
  • Acts 9:13–43But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.
  • Ps 74:8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
  • Acts 18:4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
  • Luke 6:17He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
  • John 6:59He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
  • 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.
  • Matt 13:19When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
  • Luke 10:9Heal the sick who are therein, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
  • Matt 3:2“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
  • Matt 14:14Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
  • Matt 10:7–8As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
  • Luke 20:1On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.
  • Luke 4:40–41When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
  • John 7:1After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

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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.'

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