He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now something greater than Jonah is here.

Additional Teachings

“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it.

and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Philip in Samaria

Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.

After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.

Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.

At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.

You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached—

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead.

Before the coming of Jesus, John preached repentance and baptism to all the people of Israel.

where they continued to preach the gospel.

The Return to Antioch in Syria

They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,

and when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.

Disagreement Between Paul and Barnabas

Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.”

Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia

Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.

After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up.

A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.

Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.”