Matthew 10:7

10:7 As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near!’

Matthew 3:1

The Ministry of John the Baptist

3:1 In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness ¹  of Judea proclaiming,

Matthew 4:17

4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach this message: ²  “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

Matthew 10:27

10:27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, ³  proclaim from the housetops. ⁴ 

Matthew 11:1

11:1 When ⁵  Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

Matthew 24:14

24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, ⁶  and then the end will come.

Matthew 26:13

26:13 I tell you the truth, ⁷  wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Matthew 4:23

Jesus’ Healing Ministry

4:23 Jesus ⁸  went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, ⁹  preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

Matthew 9:35

Workers for the Harvest

9:35 Then Jesus went throughout all the towns ¹⁰  and villages, teaching in their synagogues, ¹¹  preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness. ¹² 

[3:1]  ¹ tn Or “desert.”

[4:17]  ¹ tn Grk “and to say.”

[10:27]  ¹ tn Grk “what you hear in the ear,” an idiom.

[10:27]  ² tn The expression “proclaim from the housetops” is an idiom for proclaiming something publicly (L&N 7.51). Roofs of many first century Jewish houses in Judea and Galilee were flat and had access either from outside or from within the house. Something shouted from atop a house would be heard by everyone in the street below.

[11:1]  ¹ tn Grk “And it happened when.” The introductory phrase καὶ ἐγένετο (kai egeneto, “it happened that”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[24:14]  ¹ tn Or “all the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “nations” or “Gentiles”).

[26:13]  ¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[4:23]  ¹ tn Grk “And he.”

[4:23]  ² sn Synagogues were places for Jewish prayer and worship, with recognized leadership (cf. Luke 8:41). Though the origin of the synagogue is not entirely clear, it seems to have arisen in the postexilic community during the intertestamental period. A town could establish a synagogue if there were at least ten men. In normative Judaism of the NT period, the OT scripture was read and discussed in the synagogue by the men who were present (see the Mishnah, m. Megillah 3-4; m. Berakhot 2).

[9:35]  ¹ tn Or “cities.”

[9:35]  ² sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[9:35]  ³ tn Grk “and every [kind of] sickness.” Here “every” was not repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.