Mark 16:20

After that, his followers went everywhere and told people the good news about Jesus. And our leader, Jesus himself, worked with them. He gave them power to do great things so that everyone knew that he was with them, and that their message about him was true.

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In The King James Version

And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

In Context

19After Jesus finished telling his followers all those things, God took him up to heaven. And Jesus sat down at the right-hand side of God, the place where only a really important person can sit.

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Cross References

Acts 2:1The special day came for the Jewish ceremony called Pentecost, and all Jesus’s followers met together in one place.

Acts 5:12Jesus’s special workers kept on doing powerful things to show everyone that God is powerful. And all the Christians kept on meeting together in God’s ceremony house, in the part called Solomon’s veranda.

Matthew Henry on Mark 16:20

The Ascension. 19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. 20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. Here is, 1. Christ welcomed into the upper world ( v. 19 ): After the Lord had spoken what he had to say to his disciples, he went up into heaven, in a cloud; which we have a particular account of ( Acts i. 9 ), and he had not only an admission, but an… Read the whole commentary →

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