Mark 6:12
So they set out and preached that the people should repent.
BSB
ASV
And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
KJV
And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) It goes on, And they went and preached that men should repent. And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them. Mark alone mentions their anointing with oil. James however, in his canonical Epistle, says a thing similar. For oil both refreshes our labours, and gives us light and joy; but again, oil signifies the mercy of the unction of God, the healing of infirmity, and the enlightening of the heart, the whole of which is worked by prayer.
Preached that men should repent - See the nature of repentance explained in notes at Mat 3:2. They were now called upon to repent and reform their lives because sin was evil, because the Messiah had come to preach forgiveness to the penitent, and because at “his” presence it was fit that the nation should turn from its sins and prepare to receive him.
1816–1900
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)
These verses describe the first sending forth of the apostles to preach. The great Head of the church made proof of His ministers, before He left them alone in the world. He taught them to try their own powers of teaching, and to find out their own weaknesses, while He was yet with them. Thus, on the one hand, He was enabled to correct their mistakes. Thus, on the other, they were trained for the work they were one day to do, and were not novices, when finally left to themselves.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 4:17From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
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and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
After the arrest of John, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Acts 2:38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
