Matthew 10:7 - Easy To Read Version When you go, tell them this: ‘The kingdom of heaven is coming soon.’ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand! American Standard Version (1901) And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Common English Bible As you go, make this announcement: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Catholic Public Domain Version And going forth, preach, saying: 'For the kingdom of heaven has drawn near.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand. |
\{The Lord’s servant says,\} “The Lord my Master put his Spirit in me. God chose me to tell good news to poor people and to comfort sad people. God sent me to tell the captives that they are free and to tell the prisoners that they have been set free.
Heal sick people. Give dead people life again. Heal those people that have leprosy. {\cf2\super [124]} Force demons {\cf2\super [125]} to leave people. I give you these powers freely. So help other people freely.
Jesus finished telling these things to his twelve followers. Then Jesus left there and went to the towns in Galilee to teach the people and tell them \{about God\}.
“So I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you. God’s kingdom will be given to people that do the things God wants in his kingdom.
“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and Pharisees. {\cf2\super [333]} You are hypocrites. {\cf2\super [334]} You close the way for people to enter the kingdom of heaven. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop the people that are trying to enter.
John said, “Change your hearts and lives, because the kingdom of heaven is coming soon.”
From that time Jesus began to tell people \{what God wanted\}. This is what he said: “Change your hearts and lives, because the kingdom of heaven is coming soon.”
The followers left there and went to other places. They talked to the people and told them to change their hearts and lives.
“Before John the Baptizer came, God wanted the people to live by the law \{of Moses\} and the writings of the prophets. {\cf2\super [263]} But since the time of John, the Good News about the kingdom of God is being told. Many people are trying hard to get into the kingdom of God.
Jesus sent the apostles to tell about God’s kingdom and to heal the sick.
So the apostles went out. They traveled through all the towns. They told the Good News {\cf2\super [160]} and healed people everywhere.
But Jesus said to him, “Let the people that are dead bury their own dead! You must go and tell about the kingdom of God.”
One night Nicodemus came to Jesus. Nicodemus said, “Teacher, we know that you are a teacher sent from God. No person can do these miracles {\cf2\super [46]} that you do without God’s help.”
When Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him. Cornelius fell down at Peter’s feet and worshiped him.
Paul told people about the kingdom of God. He taught about the Lord Jesus Christ. He was very bold (brave), and no one tried to stop him from speaking.
They were upset because of what Peter and John were teaching the people. By telling people about Jesus, the two apostles {\cf2\super [65]} were teaching that people will rise from death.