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Chinese NCV (Simplified)
马å¯ç¦é³ 6:12
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门 徒 就 出 去 传 道 , 叫 人 悔 改 ,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
preached: Mark 1:3, Mark 1:15, Ezekiel 18:30, Matthew 3:2, Matthew 3:8, Matthew 4:17, Matthew 9:13, Matthew 11:20, Luke 11:32, Luke 13:3, Luke 13:5, Luke 15:7, Luke 15:10, Luke 24:47, Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, Acts 11:18, Acts 20:21, Acts 26:20, 2 Corinthians 7:9, 2 Corinthians 7:10, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:26
Reciprocal: Matthew 10:7 - preach Luke 9:2 - General Luke 9:6 - General Acts 17:30 - but Hebrews 6:1 - repentance
Cross-References
The number of people on earth began to grow, and daughters were born to them.
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.
The Lord said, "My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.
The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.
But Noah pleased the Lord .
he said to Noah, "Because people have made the earth full of violence, I will destroy all of them from the earth.
Build a boat of cypress wood for yourself. Make rooms in it and cover it inside and outside with tar.
This is how big I want you to build the boat: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
Make an opening around the top of the boat that is eighteen inches high from the edge of the roof down. Put a door in the side of the boat. Make an upper, middle, and lower deck in it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they went out,.... From that part of the country where they then were, some one way, and some another, two by two, with these instructions, and according to these directions; in order to preach the word, and work miracles, in the several parts where they were sent:
and preached that men should repent; both of the evil practices which they were guilty of, and of the bad principles they had imbibed, and change both their sentiments and their conduct: this, they exhorted them to, as John the Baptist, and Christ, had done before, who set out in their ministry the same way; and these, as they did also, preached the Gospel, and the things appertaining to the kingdom of God, and Gospel dispensation, and called upon men to believe them. For faith and repentance went together in Christ's ministry, Mark 1:15, and so they did in the ministry of John, the Baptist, Acts 19:4, and in the ministry of the apostles, Acts 20:21. When they preached that men should repent, it does not from hence follow, that they have a power to repent of themselves: for such is the condition of men by nature, that they neither see their need of repentance, and their hearts are so hard and obdurate, that they cannot work themselves up to it, or work it in them, and exercise it; this requires the powerful and efficacious grace of God to produce it, and it is a gift of his grace; and if he gives the means, and not the grace of repentance itself, it will never appear: but the apostles preaching that men should repent, shows that they were in such a state as to need it; and how necessary it was for them to have it, seeing without it they must all perish: and such a ministration is proper, to awaken the minds of men to a sense of the need of it, and to direct them to Christ the Saviour, who is exalted to give it, as well as the remission of sins.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Preached that men should repent - See the nature of repentance explained in notes at Matthew 3:2. They were now called upon to repent and reform their lives because sin was evil, because the Messiah had come to preach forgiveness to the penitent, and because at “his” presence it was fit that the nation should turn from its sins and prepare to receive him.