Mark 1:38

Plain English Version

But Jesus said to them, “Come on, let’s go. I have to go to the other towns around here too, and tell everyone the good news. That’s the job I came to do.”

Cross References

Mark 1:37

After they found him, they said, “Everyone is looking for you.”

Mark 1:39

So Jesus went all around Galilee country, talking to people in their meeting houses, and telling them God’s story. And he forced bad spirits to go out of lots of people.

Luke 2:49

Jesus said, “Why did you look everywhere for me? I had to be in my father’s special house. You should know that.”

John 16:28

Yes, I came from my father, and I came into the world. But now I am going to leave the world and go back to my father.”

John 17:4

I did everything that you sent me here to do, and when people saw me do that, they saw that you are great and powerful.

John 17:8

I told them the message that you told me, and they believed it. Now they know for sure that you sent me to the world.

John 9:4

We have to keep on doing God’s work while we can. He is the one that sent me here and gave me this special work to do. You see, my work shows God’s great power, so I am like a light for all the people in the world. I have to do God’s work while I am here. It is like I am working in day-light. But I will not always be here to do the work that God gave me. Then it will be like night time, and nobody can work at night time.”