Luke 4:43

And Jesus said to them: It behooveth me to announce the kingdom of God to other cities also; for therefore was I sent.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.

In Context

42And at the dawn of day, he went out and retired to a desert place. And the multitudes sought him, and went out to him, and held him fast, that he might not retire from them.

44And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

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Cross References

Mark 1:38And he said to them: Go into the adjacent villages and towns; for there also I will preach, because therefore have I come.

John 9:4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, in which no one can work.

Acts 10:38concerning Jesus, who was of Nazareth, whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power. And he it was, who went about and healed those that were suffering from evil, because God was with him.

Matthew Henry on Luke 4:32-44

The Expulsion of a Demon; Christ's Departure from Capernaum. 31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days. 32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. 33 And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, 34 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. 35 And Jesus rebuked him,… Read the whole commentary →

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