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Young's Literal Translation

Mark 6:12

And having gone forth they were preaching that [men] might reform,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Preaching;   Repentance;   The Topic Concordance - Disciples/apostles;   Evangelism;   Healing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Missionary Work by Ministers;   Repentance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Repentance;   Teacher;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Apostles;   Disciples;   Healing, Divine;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Authority of Christ;   Church (2);   Discourse;   Organization (2);   Premeditation;   Redemption (2);   Teaching of Jesus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - New Testament;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Apostle;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So they went out and preached that people should repent.
King James Version (1611)
And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
King James Version
And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
English Standard Version
So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent.
New American Standard Bible
And they went out and preached that people are to repent.
New Century Version
So the followers went out and preached that people should change their hearts and lives.
Amplified Bible
So they went out and preached that men should repent [that is, think differently, recognize sin, turn away from it, and live changed lives].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They went out and preached that men should repent.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they went out and preached that men should repent.
Berean Standard Bible
So they set out and preached that the people should repent.
Contemporary English Version
The apostles left and started telling everyone to turn to God.
Complete Jewish Bible
So they set out and preached that people should turn from sin to God,
Darby Translation
And they went forth and preached that they should repent;
Easy-to-Read Version
The apostles left and went to other places. They talked to the people and told them to change their hearts and lives.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they went out, and preached, that men should amend their liues.
George Lamsa Translation
And they went out and preached that they should repent.
Good News Translation
So they went out and preached that people should turn away from their sins.
Lexham English Bible
And they went out and proclaimed that people should repent.
Literal Translation
And going out, they proclaimed that men should repent.
American Standard Version
And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
Bible in Basic English
And they went out, preaching the need for a change of heart in men.
Hebrew Names Version
They went out and preached that people should repent.
International Standard Version
So they went and preached that peoplethey
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Etheridge Translation
And they went forth, and preached that they should repent.
Murdock Translation
And they went out and proclaimed, that [fn] should repent.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they went out, & preached, that men should repent.
English Revised Version
And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
World English Bible
They went out, and preached that people should repent.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they went out and preached, that men should repent.
Weymouth's New Testament
So they set out, and preached in order that men might repent.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei yeden forth, and prechiden, that men schulden do penaunce.
Update Bible Version
And they went out, and preached that [men] should repent.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they went out and preached that men should repent.
New English Translation
So they went out and preached that all should repent.
New King James Version
So they went out and preached that people should repent.
New Living Translation
So the disciples went out, telling everyone they met to repent of their sins and turn to God.
New Life Bible
Then they left. They preached that men should be sorry for their sins and turn from them.
New Revised Standard
So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they went forth and made proclamation, in order that men should repent;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And going forth they preached men should do penance:
Revised Standard Version
So they went out and preached that men should repent.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they went out and preached that they shuld repent:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they wete forth, and preached, that men shulde amede them selues,
Mace New Testament (1729)
then they departed, and call'd upon all to repent.
THE MESSAGE
Then they were on the road. They preached with joyful urgency that life can be radically different; right and left they sent the demons packing; they brought wellness to the sick, anointing their bodies, healing their spirits.
Simplified Cowboy Version
So the cowboys set off in pairs to spread the good news and gather people for God's outfit. They told everyone to turn from their wicked ways and start riding for God.

Contextual Overview

7 and he doth call near the twelve, and he began to send them forth two by two, and he was giving them power over the unclean spirits, 8 and he commanded them that they may take nothing for the way, except a staff only -- no scrip, no bread, no brass in the girdle, 9 but having been shod with sandals, and ye may not put on two coats. 10 And he said to them, `Whenever ye may enter into a house, there remain till ye may depart thence, 11 and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.' 12 And having gone forth they were preaching that [men] might reform, 13 and many demons they were casting out, and they were anointing with oil many infirm, and they were healing [them].

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

Genesis 6:1
And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
Genesis 6:2
and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.
Genesis 6:3
And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4
The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they [are] the heroes, who, from of old, [are] the men of name.
Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah seeth that abundant [is] the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;
Genesis 6:8
And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, `An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
`Make for thyself an ark of gopher-wood; rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without with cypress;
Genesis 6:15
and this [is] that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits [is] the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;
Genesis 6:16
a window dost thou make for the ark, and unto a cubit thou dost restrain it from above; and the opening of the ark thou dost put in its side, -- lower, second, and third [stories] dost thou make 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.


 
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