But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”
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But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”
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And he sayde vnto them: I muste to other cities also preache the kyngdome of God: for therfore am I sent.
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But he sayd vnto them, Surely I must also preach the kingdome of God to other cities: for therefore am I sent.
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Passages linked to Luke 4:43 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Mark 1:38-39 He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.” He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.
- 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
- John 6:38-40 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- John 9:4 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
- John 20:21 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
- Acts 10:38 even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
- Isaiah 42:1-4 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice. He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”
- Isaiah 61:1-3 The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound, to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
- Mark 1:14-15 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
- Isaiah 48:16 “Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee. In…
And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee. In the several synagogues that were in different cities and towns throughout all Galilee.
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Verse 43. I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities] To proclaim the kingdom of God was the Messiah's great work; healing the diseases of the people was only an emblematical and secondary work, a work that was to be the proof of his goodness, and the demonstration of his authority to preach the Gospel, and open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
SOME have found both a difficulty and a mystery in the shutting up of heaven in the time of the Prophet Elijah. It was, no doubt, emblematical of the hardened and impenitent state of the Israelites, and of the judgments of God in withholding those Divine influences which they had so often abused. As to the difficulty of the six months, which both our Lord here, and St. James, Jas 5:17, mention, and which are not mentioned in the book of Kings whence the account is taken, it may be easily understood thus. The rains, we have already seen, fell in Judea twice in the year, about April, and about October. At this latter period, when the rain was expected, the prophet prayed that it might not rain; the rain therefore of Marchesvan, or October, c., was then restrained: this restraint continued for three full years but six months had elapsed from Nisan, April, c., when they had their last rain, add these six months to the three full years that the rain was restrained at the prayer of Elijah, and then we have the period of three years and six months, according to our Lord and Saint James. By this the justice of God was shown: but behold his mercy in that rain of grace which fell so abundantly by the preaching of Christ during the three years and six months of his public ministry! Thus the difficulty is solved, and the mystery explained. Reader, the most awful famine is a famine of the word of God: thou art not yet tried in this way: behold the goodness and severity of God! While thou hast the light, walk as a child of the light and let it not be thy curse and condemnation, that while others, by reading and hearing the word of God, are plenteously watered, thy fleece alone should be found dry. How unutterable must the wo of those be, who live and die infidels under the preaching of the Gospel of Christ!
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Let him that readeth, understand.
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From the apparent good dispositions of these people, we might be induced to think, that if Christ had yielded to their solicitations, and remained with them, he could have drawn all to himself; yet he did not choose to do this, but has left us an example worthy of our imitation, in seeking out the perishing and strayed sheep; for by the salvation of one soul, our many sins will be remitted. (St. John Chrysostom, in cat. Græc. Pat. hom. in Matt.)
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I must, &c.--but duty only could move Him to deny entreaties so grateful to His spirit.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 43. I must] “It behoves me”—the ‘must’ of moral…
43. I must] “It behoves me”—the ‘must’ of moral obligation.
preach] Rather, tell the glad tidings of. The word is “evangelize,” not kêrussô the word of the next verse.
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the kingdom of God] The acceptance of the Faith of Christ, whether in the heart or in the world, was illustrated by Christ in its small beginnings,—the mustard seed (Luk_13:19); in its hidden working (Luk_13:21); and in its final triumph.
to other cities] Rather, to the rest of the cities. In St Mark He says, Let us go elsewhere to the adjoining country villages.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (43) I must preach.—Better, I must declare the glad…
(43) I must preach.—Better, I must declare the glad tidings of the kingdom. The Greek verb is literally “to evangelise,” and is quite distinct from that commonly translated “preach.”
To other cities also.—Literally, to the other cities, with a special reference, probably, to those of Galilee.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain I must preach the kingdom of God to other…
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I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities--
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A precedent for preachers
Christ thus admired and desired to stay in Capernaum, would not so do, as having an eye to His ease or conveniency there, but must be at the pains to preach elsewhere.
Teaching us that we must not measure our services from ourselves or conveniences, nor in them seek our own ease or acceptance among men; but so carry them as may be most for Gods glory and our own sound comfort. Our Saviour Christ admitted not their motion, but made them this answer in the words of the text, Surely I must also preach. Wherein consider five points.
1. The work which Christ must do--He must preach.
2. The necessity of it--I must.
3. The matter what He must preach--the kingdom of God.
4. The object or people to whom--to other cities also.
5. The bond of this necessity-- For therefore I am sent.
I. THE WORK IS PREACHING. Thus preaching is called the setting out of the mystery of Christ, and a publishing of the mystery of the gospel, and the revealing of a mystery hid since the world began. Hence observe the greatness of the work of preaching, and the great estimation of it, for which end the Son of God Himself came from heaven. The great work of God considered in the means seems vile and base, and nothing more stunneth the minds of carnal men than the baseness of the means, compared with the magnificence of the effects. It might seem ridiculous to the men of Jericho that the blast of rams horns and sound of trumpets should batter down stone walls, and no marvel but that they smiled at such unlikely means; but yet it was so: so this work of preaching in the eye of a carnal man is but foolishness, as 1Co_1:21, but yet to them that are called, it is the power of God to salvation. Here behold weakness encountering and overmastering strength, simplicity overreaching policy, and Gods power prevailing in His own weak means.
II. The second part of the text is THE NECESSITY OF PREACHING-- I must preach. It depends not upon His will, or left to His discretion; but He must do it. Now, much more necessity lieth on us His ministers. Now if we be bound to preach, ye are bound to hear; if we be bound to deliver the Word, ye are bound to receive the Word, not as the word of man; but as it is indeed the Word of God, with all reverence, duty, and piety.
III. The third point is THE MATTER OF THIS PREACHING: the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is twofold.
1. Of grace.
2. Of glory.
In the former God reigneth in us. In the latter we reign with God. The former is in this life, the latter in the life to come. The one issuing into the other, and both of them becoming one: for we read not of Gods kingdoms in the plural, but of His kingdom, which is but one. This is that tabernacle of God which is with men. To this kingdom God calleth us by preaching, and here it must be begun by righteousness, repentance, mortification, and shall have fulness hereafter. All men desire to partake in the kingdom of Christ and glory, but few will be subject to his Father in the kingdom of grace. We to whom God hath committed the preaching of His Word must have care to further this kingdom and bring in many to be subjects of it, expecting that glorious recompense of shining as the stars in the firmament for ever and ever.
IV. THE PERSONS TO WHOM CHRIST MUST PREACH--to other cities. As the sun compasseth the world and stayeth in no one part, so Christ the Sun of Righteousness never settleth in any one place, but seeketh to disperse everywhere His blessed light. It had been in Christs power Himself to have kept one place always, and have sent His disciples to all other, but He would not: that we should by His example learn not to shun labour, but employ our pains and diligence in building the kingdom of God, and in seeking and saving that which is lost. Thus was Christ as a compassionate Physician, who not being sent for, offereth His care and pains, as willing to save such as are in danger.
V. The bond of this necessity--for therefore am I sent. He should betray the end of His coming if He should not preach. The point we must here learn is that every man must serve the end and use that he is called unto, and carefully discharge the trust committed unto him (Rom_12:7-8). The heathen held it as shameful and dangerous to fail in matter of trust, as if the party had committed theft. (T. Taylor, D. D.)
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43. I must preach … in other cities. See notes on Matt. 4:23–25 and Mark 1:35–39.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 4:43 The Greek verb translated preach the Good News…
4:43 The Greek verb translated preach the Good News corresponds to the noun often translated “gospel” (“Good News”; see study note on 2:9-10; see also 1:19; 7:22; Matt 4:23; 24:14; Mark 1:1, 15; 16:15; Acts 8:4, 12; Rom 1:1-6, 15-17; 10:15-17; Gal 1:6-9; Eph 2:14-18; 3:6-7). • The Kingdom of God was Jesus’ central concern (see Mark 1:15), and God’s sovereign reign was established through Jesus’ words and deeds.
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