When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.
he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him,
And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.
Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
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