Mark 1:38

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.”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.

In Context

37After they found him, they said, “Everyone is looking for you.”

39So 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.

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Cross References

Luke 2:49Jesus said, “Why did you look everywhere for me? I had to be in my father’s special house. You should know that.”

John 16:28Yes, 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 17:8I told them the message that you told me, and they believed it. Now they know for sure that you sent me to the world.

Matthew Henry on Mark 1:30-40

Christ Healing Many Patients. 29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. 31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. 32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. 33 And all the city was… Read the whole commentary →

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